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The controversial gold medalist, Imane Khelif, pulled a laconic message on Monday while the new leader of the Olympic Games called for “protecting” the female category to “ensure equity”.
Khelif, who faced questions on the question of whether the fighter was eligible to participate in the women’s category during the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, pulled a quote commonly attributed to Winston Churchill after the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry, took his position on the protection of women.
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Random Algeria’s Imane Khelif celebrates the victory against Anna Luca Hamori of Team Hungary after the 66 kg women’s match in the quarter -finals on the eighth day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in North Paris Arena on August 3, 2024 in Paris. (Images Richard Pelham / Getty)
“Success is not definitive, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts,” said Khelif an article on the Instagram stories of the boxer.
Coventry said Thursday that she had “overwhelming support” to make movements to protect the female category at the Olympic Games in the midst of the controversies of transgender athletes who tormented sports for girls and women in the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
“We understand that there will be differences according to sport … But it was very clear of the members that we must protect the female category, above all to ensure equity,” said Coventry.
“But we must do it with a scientific approach and the inclusion of international federations which have already done a lot of work in this area.”
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria, illustrated here, participates in Anna Luca Hamori of Team Hungary during the 66 kg women’s boxing match in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at North Paris Arena, in Villepinte, France, August 3, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Onel / Anadolu via Getty Images)
The new president added that there is “unanimous” support to achieve an agreement on how to modify politics and suggested that the IOC could be inspired by global athletics policy, which prevents biological men from participating in female sports if these men have crossed male puberty.
“It was very clear of the membership that the discussion around this must be done with medical and scientific research at the heart, we therefore examine the facts and the nuances and the inclusion of international federations which have done so much of this work … Having a siege at the table and sharing with us because each sport is different,” she said.
“But it was almost unanimously felt that the IOC should play a leading role by bringing together everyone to try to find a large consensus.”
However, Coventry also said that not all changes have not led to retroactively modifying the results of past competitions that presented athletes with gender eligibility issues. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games presented two boxers winning gold in female competition, despite the gender eligibility tests for international competitions.
The coach of the Algeria team, Mohamed Al-Shawa, assists Imane Khelif of Team Algeria with her head guard before the 66 kg preliminary female match against Angela Carini of Team Italy on the six day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in North Paris Arena on August 1, 2024 in Paris, France. (Images Richard Pelham / Getty)
Khelif medals would probably be safe even in the face of a medical test published in 3 wire sports in June which rekindled the controversy between the sexes around the boxer.
