The International Boxing Association (IBA) said Monday that it is to take legal actions against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the inclusion of Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan at the Olympic Games last year.
The two boxers had been excluded from the 2023 world championship of the IBA after the combatants failed the gender eligibility tests, but the IOC cleared them to fight and both won gold medals in Paris.
The IOC organized boxing in Paris after the expulsion of the IBA of the Olympic movement after financial and ethical irregularities.
In his statement, which linked his action with the executive order of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, last week that he was looking to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, he said he said he is “presenting an official complaint before the prosecutor General of Switzerland … regarding the actions of the IOC … “.
He added that he was presenting similar complaints in France and the United States.
“The order of President Trump to prohibit the transgender athletes of women’s sport validated the efforts to protect the integrity of women’s sports,” said the president of IBA, Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch linked to the Kremlin.
Neither Imane Khelif nor Lin Yu-ting are transgender women. Both were born and grew as women, this is how they register in their passports.
