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The controversial gold medalist Imane Khelif shot a brief message on Monday when the new head of the Olympic Games asked to “protect” the female category to “guarantee equity.”
Khelif, who faced questions about whether the fighter was eligible to compete in the women’s category during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, dismissed an appointment commonly attributed to Winston Churchill after the new president of the International Olympic Committee (COI) Kirsty Coventry assumed his position on the protection of women.
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Imane Khelif of the Algeria team celebrates the victory against Anna Luca Hamori of the Hungary team after the match of the quarterfinals of 66 kg of 66 kg on day eight of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in North Paris Arena on August 3, 2024 in Paris. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue what counts,” Khelif subtitled a publication about the boxer’s Instagram stories.
Coventry said Thursday that he had an “overwhelming support” to make movements to protect the category of women in the Olympic Games in the midst of transgender athletes controversies that have affected the sports of girls and women in the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
“We understand that there will be differences depending on sport … but members of the members have to protect the female category, first of all to guarantee equity,” Coventry said.
“But we need to do that with a scientific approach and the inclusion of international federations that have already worked a lot in this area.”
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Imane Khelif of the Algeria team, in the photo here, competes against Anna Luca Hamori of the Hungary team in the quarterfinal boxing match of 66 kg female during the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 in the North Paris Arena, in Vilepinte, France, on August 3, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Óble/Anadolu through Getty Images)
The new president added that there is “unanimous” support to reach an agreement on how to amend the policy and suggested that the IOC can be inspired by the world athletics politics, which restricts the biological men to compete in women’s sports if these men have passed through male puberty.
“It was very clear about the membership that the discussion about this must be done with medical and scientific research in the background, so we are looking at the facts and nuances and the inclusion of international federations that have done much of this work … having a seat at the table and sharing with us because each sport is different,” he said.
“But it felt unanimously that the IOC should assume a main role in unite everyone to try to find a broad consensus.”
However, Coventry also said that any change would probably not result to retroactively change the results of past competitions that presented athletes with gender eligibility questions. The 2024 Paris Olympic Games presented two gold winning boxers in women’s competition, despite previously failed gender eligibility tests for international competitions.
The Algeria team coach, Mohamed al-Shawa, helps Imane Khelif of the Algeria team with his guard chief before the preliminary round of 66 kg female against Angela Carini of the Italian team on the sixth day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the North Paris Arena on August 1, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
Khelif’s medals would probably be safe even before a medical test published in 3 Wire Sports in June that revived the gender controversy around the boxer.
