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The controversial gold medal IMane Khelif fired a tight message on Monday when the new Olympic chef called to “protect” the female category to “secure justice.”
Khelif, who was facing questions about whether the fighter jet was entitled to compete in the Female Category of Paris -ol in 2024, fired a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill after the New International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry took his attitude to protect women.
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates victory against Anna Luca Hamori from Team Hungary after the women’s 66 kg quarter-final round match on day eight of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 in North Paris Arena on August 3, 2024 in Paris. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
“Success is not final, failure is not deadly: It’s the courage to continue that counts,” Caption Khelif a post on the boxer’s Instagram stories.
Coventry said on Thursday that she had “overwhelming support” to make movements to protect the women’s category in the Olympics in the midst of the controversy for transient athletes who have plagued girls and women’s sports in the United States, Britain and Australia.
“We understand that there will be differences depending on the sport … but it was very clear from the members that we first have to protect the female category, first and foremost to ensure justice,” Coventry said.
“But we have to do so with a scientific approach and inclusion of the international federations that have already done a lot of work in this area.”
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria, depicted here, competes against Anna Luca Hamori from Team Hungary in the women’s 66 kg quarter-final boxing match during the Paris Olympic Games 2024 at North Paris Arena, in Villepinte, France, August 3, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The new president added that there is “unanimous” support to come to an agreement on how to change the policy, and suggested that the IOC can draw inspiration from the world’s athletics policy that restricts biological men from competing in women’s sports if these men have gone through male puberty.
“It was very clear of the membership that the discussion about this must be done with medical and scientific research at the core, so we look at the facts and nuances and inclusion of the international federations that have done so much of this work … to have a seat at the table and share with us because every sport is different,” she said.
“But it was quite unanimously felt that the IOC should take a leading role in bringing everyone together to try to find a broad consensus.”
However, Coventry also said that any changes would probably not result in retroactive effect in changing the results of previous competitions containing athletes with gender eligibility issues. The Paris Olympics in 2024 contained two boxers who won gold in the women’s competition, despite previously failed sex eligible tests for international competitions.
Team Algeria coach Mohamed al-Shawa helps Imane Khelif of Team Algeria with his main guard before the women’s 66 kg preliminary round match against Angela Carini from Team Italy on day six of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 1, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
Khelifs medals would probably be safe, even in the light of a medical test published in 3 thread sports in June, which repeated the gender controversy around the boxer.
