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The affair of the “Algerian boxer” Imane Khelif seems to be gaining momentum again, according to a medical report revealed by a journalist from the French-speaking online media Le Correspondant, revealing that Imane Khelif, gold medalist at the Paris Games 2024 in less than 66 kilos, would actually be a man.
The document details the results of a medical examination carried out in June 2023 at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital center in Paris, with the support of the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers ensures that “the boxer”, at the center of an endless controversial during the last Games, has XY chromosomes, typically associated with the male sex, and has internal testicles.
The exam also reveals the presence of a micropenis and absence of a uterus, symptoms of a disorder called 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which alters sexual development.
As a reminder, Imane Khelif was disqualified by the IBA from the 2023 Women’s World Championships in New Delhi, after medical tests, the results of which the body chaired by the Russian Umar Kremlev did not wish to communicate. But she was authorized by the IOC to participate in the Paris 2024 Games, Lausanne highlighting that she has a women’s passport and has spent her entire sporting career in the women’s ranks. Unsurprisingly, the IBA was quick to react to the “Correspondent”’s revelations.
In a press release sent on Tuesday, November 5, Umar Kremlev attacked the IOC and its president, Thomas Bach, saying that they had “violated all the rules of sport by pitting a man against a woman. » The Russian asks Thomas Bach and his team to “present a verbal and written apology to the global boxing community (…), to kneel and apologize to the girls who were beaten and abused. » Unlikely that will happen.
