Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif challenges the gender testing mandate

Boxing Olympic Champion Imane Khelif He is challenging the The decision of the Global Boxing Federation to demand gender tests to determine the eligibility of male and female boxers.

In May, World Boxing said Khelif, an Algerian boxer, would be prohibited from all world boxing competitions until it underwent the mandatory evidence. The decision to demand evidence was partly due to the surrounding controversy Khelif After winning a gold medal in 2024 Olympic Paris Games.

On Monday, the Sports Arbitration Court said in a statement that Khelif was challenging World Boxing’s decision. He said that the appeal, presented on August 5, also requested that CAS declared Khelif eligible to participate in the World Boxing Championship from 2025 from September 4 to 14 without a test.

Cas said that an application had dismissed on Monday to suspend the execution of world boxing tests until the case is heard.

Khelif was one of the two boxers that caused a rage of gender eligibility at the Paris Games. The other was the Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-Ting, who has entered to compete in the World Championship that starts this week in Liverpool.

Both combatants won Olympic gold medals, but Khelif’s opening fight, when he left his Italian opponent in tears, caused criticism of a variety of commentators, including the now American vice president JD Vance and the author of “Harry Potter” JK Rowling.

Khelif embedded for years on the international stage without problems or gender questions until the year prior to the Olympic Games, when it was disqualified from the World Championships of the International Boxing Association.

Last month, he denied the claims made by his former manager that he was putting his career waiting.

“I would like to make clear the public that the reports of my boxing retirement are false,” wrote the 26 -year -old on Facebook.

He accused his former manager, Nasser Yesfah, of “betraying (she) trust and (she) country with her false and malicious statements.”

“This person no longer represents me in any way,” he said.

FACE TABACHNICK contributed to this report.

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