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Paris, France – 5th August 2024.
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1. 00:08 SOUNDBITE (Russian) Umar Kremlev, IBA president:
"We are declaring an investigation against Thomas Bach (IOC President) and his team. I’m urging the best investigators from across the globe to join and do a public investigation on how much they have corrupted the International Olympic Committee. They shouldn’t take decisions themselves."
2. 00:30 SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Roberts, IBA secretary general and CEO:
"We are not able to disclose the results of any tests, but you can read between the lines where that sits. And of course, what I’d also like to mention here is that yesterday evening and this morning we’ve received letters from the NOC’s in Chinese Taipei and Algeria respectively informed us that we can’t disclose any information pertinent to either boxer."
3. 00:59 SOUNDBITE (English) Ioannis Filippatos, former IBA chair of its medical committee:
"Many countries are concerned. Medically, it’s (the tests of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting) ok, (it was) possible to participate in boxing. The problem was the gender, the sex, woman or man. We did four blood exams for the gender. The two was these two boxers (Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting), the other two were ok."
4. 01:19 SOUNDBITE (English) Roumaysa Boualam, Algerian boxer:
"They let her box and after she ended up in the final, they did ‘You can’t compete’. So, this was very frustrating for all of us. We live very difficult time right there because we trained, she trained hard, she prepared for that (competition)."
5. 01:35 SOUNDBITE (English) Roumaysa Boualam, Algerian boxer:
"She will fight, and this is unfair what happened. In any part it is unfair. I mean all the athletes have to support her and they have to feel what she feels right now when all the world is against us. It’s not correct."
SOURCE: Associated Press
DURATION: 01:54
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.
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