PARIS — IOC President Thomas Bach mentioned Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting on the Paris Olympics is “completely unacceptable.”
“We won’t participate in a politically motivated … cultural struggle,” Bach mentioned at a information briefing
Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been subjected to days of world scrutiny about their gender. Each girls had been disqualified on the 2023 world championships.
The Russian-led Worldwide Boxing Affiliation — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — eliminated them from the worlds 16 months in the past in India citing gender-based assessments which might be nonetheless unspecified and unproven.
“We now have two boxers who’re born as girls, who’ve been raised as girls, who’ve a passport as a girl and have competed for a few years as girls,” Bach mentioned. “Some wish to personal a definition of who’s a girls.”
