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World Boxing will introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers in its competitions, the body said on Friday, adding that Paris Olympics women's welterweight champion Imane Khelif will not be ...
PARIS – The case of two Olympic boxers has drawn attention to a thorny issue: Who and what determines which female athletes can compete. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan ...
At the time, IBA president Umar Kremlev told Russian news agency TASS that the boxers had “XY chromosomes”. The World Championships were organised by the IBA, which is no longer a federation ...
Now, these boxers faced much more than their opponents in Paris - they also repeatedly had their gender questioned. Rose Eveleth is the host of the new podcast series Tested, from NPR's Embedded ...