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The International Olympic Committee was forced to issue a correction on Saturday after its president apparently spread false information about two boxing contestants who have been allowed to compete against female opponents despite allegedly having male chromosomes.
In 2023, the International Boxing Association President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes.
The correction came after Bach suggested the IBA, which barred both Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting from participating in a 2023 women’s boxing tournament, lacks “credibility.” On Saturday, Khelif defeated another female contestant, Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori while“But I repeat, here, this is not a DSD case, this is about a woman taking part in a women’s competition, and I think I have explained this many times.
The IOC has also faced criticism from the left, with British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, a member of the left-wing Labour government,Despite global backlash, Bach attempted to reframe the conversation, saying that the IOC would not engage in a “politically motivated cultural war”.