The Russian-led IBA, which was stripped of its status as amateur boxing’s governing body by the IOC in 2019 because of fears over its governance and regulation, called a news conference in Paris during which president Umar Kremlev and chief executive Chris Roberts were expected to shed new light on the disqualifications.
But after technical difficulties delayed the start of the news conference that ran for more than 100 minutes, Kremlev and Roberts gave contrasting and often contradictory accounts about the disqualifications.
Roberts said the pair had “chromosome tests” but Kremlev appeared to suggest the tests were to determine the fighters’ testosterone levels.
The IBA said the tests were sent to two different laboratories that are accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
However, Wada has told BBC Sport it does not oversee gender tests and its work only relates to anti-doping matters.
The people clamoring against the inclusion of biological outliers are operating under the false -and frankly poorly thought out- idea that sports are fair and that it’s only by training the hardest that you can and will achieve victory, shonen style.
Ultimately the only completely fair-ish competition is the one where you try to outdo your previous best performance and beat your own records. Otherwise, there are so many other variables you’d have to correct for to level the playing field (and testosterone levels is not a great pick for that anyway) that you might as well have single athlete categories.
This also won’t work because of aging, injury, climate, etc.
It is the stupidest hill to die on, even by their standards. If they claim that what is written in a birth certificate is law in determining your gender, now they are torpedoing that axiom and ending up both as the anti-tradition and inhuman ones. Indefensible.
You are woman, but you are not woman.
Imagine penalny for larger than usual lungs, and/or heart.
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New account pushing a confirmed-to-be-false narrative only backed by Russian orgs and far-right politicians? It’s more likely than you think!
Looks like they already have a sitewide ban. I like our administrators.
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“She should show us her birth certificate! Show us the certificate! Where is the birth certificate?”
I’ve heard this before somewhere…
“Check her pants!” Have you heard that one before? Just got that one on Facebook.
Meanwhile, this guy lost pole vaulting gold because of his schlong 😥
confusion? if anything, this just makes clearer that the IBA is talking absolute BS
Was this ever an issue before? In 100 years of Olympics?
It was a thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany
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