Gender row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are 'destroying women's sports', claims head of the Russian-led IBA, who banned the fighters from last year's World Championships

The caput of nan International Boxing Association has labelled nan title astatine nan Paris Games 'truly terrifying' and claimed that nan determination to let gender statement boxer Imane Khelif to participate is 'destroying women's sports'. 

Khelif defiantly declared ‘I americium a woman’ aft guaranteeing herself a badge pinch a unanimous determination triumph complete Anna Luca Hamori connected Saturday. 

The Algerian welterweight, one of 2 athletes astatine nan centre of an Olympics storm, was banned from past year’s world championships by nan Russian-led IBA after they claimed she grounded a gender test. 

Umar Kremlev, who heads nan body, slammed nan determination to let nan 25-year-old and Chinese Taipei combatant Lin Yu-ting to compete and claimed that their information is damaging to 'women's sports'. 

'It's sad erstwhile we outcry to nan full world that we are for gender equality, protection of women and past they simply destruct women's sports,' he told Sky News. 

'We must not let this to happen. If we stay silent now, past later it will go normal. This is why our narration pinch [the IOC] is deteriorating - because they do not protect athletes. And we do protect athletes.'

On Friday, nan Olympic Committee pushed backmost astatine nan IBA's ruling and claimed that nan 2 athletes were 'victims of a abrupt and arbitrary decision'.

'Towards nan extremity of nan IBA World Championships successful 2023, they were abruptly disqualified without immoderate owed process.' A connection from nan IOC read. 

'According to nan IBA minutes disposable connected their website, this determination was initially taken solely by nan IBA Secretary General and CEO.'

Some sports person constricted nan levels of testosterone allowed for athletes competing successful women's competition, while others prohibition everyone who has been done antheral puberty.

Differences of Sexual Disorder are a group of uncommon conditions involving genes, hormones and reproductive organs.

Some group pinch DSDs are raised arsenic female but person XY activity chromosomes and humor testosterone levels successful nan antheral range.

The IOC said nan rules of eligibility were based connected those of nan Tokyo Games successful 2021 and could not beryllium changed during a competition.

The governing assemblage added: 'The IOC is saddened by nan maltreatment that nan 2 athletes are presently receiving. Every personification has nan correct to believe athletics without discrimination.'

Khelif's first conflict successful Paris lasted conscionable 46 seconds erstwhile Italy’s Angela Carini discontinue successful tears saying she feared for her life.

But connected Saturday, nan tears were her ain aft a ascendant capacity which saw her shouted connected by hundreds of noisy Algerians and later congratulated by nan country’s president who said she had ‘honoured Algeria, Algerian women and Algerian boxing’.

Khelif will meet Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng, successful nan semi-final connected Tuesday. Should she win, she will conflict for golden connected Friday.