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Paris, France – 5th August 2024
1. 00:00 w/s of International Boxing Association press conference
2. 00:07 SOUNDBITE: (English) Chris Roberts, IBA Secretary General and CEO (saying the IBA never wanted to be drawn into an Olympic boxing controversy)
"We never intended to raise any of these issues at this event because it is not our event. This event belongs to the IOC. The whereabouts of this has come out based on the result of the bout between the Italian Angela Carini and Khelif."
3. 00:29 various of press conference
4. 00:39 SOUNDBITE: (English) Gabriele Martelli, President of the IBA Coaches Committee (saying that keeping boxers like Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting out of the ring is a matter of safety)
“Boxing is different from any kind of sport that we have here because if we lose in an Olympic Gmes, in a world championship, because of an unfair advantage, we might be hurt emotionally, physically, because an advantage was used to take a medal from us. But in our sport, it is different, it is dangerous; when there is an unfair advantage, someone can die.”
5. 01:17 w/s press conference
6. 01:24 SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Umar Kremlev, IBA President (saying the controversy happened because the IOC stripped the IBA of its power to sanction Olympic boxing)
"Of course, it’s not just women’s boxing that is being destroyed, but I think that in the future they (The IOC) will try to destroy women’s sports in the same way as it is happening today at the Olympics. Because it is not the IBA that is organising boxing at the Olympics. If it were the IBA, this would not be happening today."
7. 01:50 press conference ending
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURATION: 02:01
STORYLINE:
The International Boxing Association raised new questions while struggling to answer others Monday at a shambolic news conference about the opaque eligibility tests that led the Olympics-banned governing body to abruptly suspend Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from last year’s world championships, a decision that has fueled online abuse against the women during the Paris Games.
The IBA still refused to disclose nearly all details about the tests and their results or methodologies leading to the disqualifications of Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan.
Those decisions catalyzed a major uproar in Paris around the two boxers, who have clinched Olympic medals despite facing rampant misconceptions about their gender amid a wider divide over gender regulations and identity in sports.
Chris Roberts, the IBA’s secretary general and CEO, claimed that the Olympic committees of Algeria and Taiwan wrote letters to the IBA asking them not to disclose information about the boxers at the news conference in Paris.
What information it did reveal about the tests was mostly not flattering to the governing body, which received an unprecedented banishment from the Olympics last year following decades of troubled governance and longstanding accusations of a thorough lack of normal transparency.
The former chair of its medical committee, a Greek obstetrician named Ioannis Filippatos, said the IBA did blood tests on only four of the hundreds of fighters at the 2022 world championships.
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