IOC President Thomas Bach said the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.”
“We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing Saturday at the midway point of the Paris Games, where he wanted to draw a line under days of global scrutiny about the female boxers’ gender.
IBA disqualified athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif from the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships New Delhi 2023. This disqualification was a result of their failure to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women’s competition, as set and laid out in the IBA Regulations. Point to note, the athletes did not undergo a testosterone examination but were subject to a separate and recognized test. This test conclusively indicated that both athletes did not meet the required necessary eligibility criteria and were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors.
You are arguing in bad faith. The decision was not regarding gender but due to the detection of “competitive advantages” which obviously falls under the doping rules.
Edit: link break repair.
What exactly do you think makes you eligible for the women’s competition apart from being a woman?
Can you find the page in those rules that show which women are excluded from the women’s competition? Because I sure can’t.
Are you seriously arguing there is no way to be DQ’d from Women’s Competition aside from not being female? Come on.
Yes, I am arguing that. You show me where in the rules it says ineligibility specifically from the women’s competition and not all competition.
I’ve already shown you. Do your own work.
That is simply a lie. You did not show me the rule. You showed me an appendix which specifically did not say what you said it did, then claimed you were wrong, then went back to claiming it said what it didn’t say.
Then you showed me a press release which did not show me which rule she broke.
I have no idea why you’re just outright lying now.
You are lying. Period. I linked you the ENTIRE RULESET and merely pointed you to Appendix 6 for evidence of the testing and appeals process. Read the entire thing if you care about all the rules.
You pointed me to something about doping.
You did not point me to the rule that excluded women from women’s competition but not all competition.
You can do the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” thing all you like, but you did not show me that rule.
I’m not going to. Read the entire document, and follow up on the ADR once you know what that is (hint: it is linked in the rules I already gave you), and then the Prohibited List if you really want a comprehensive list of everything not-testosterone that can get you banned from women’s competition. Until then, you being uninformed only weakens your argument, not mine.