(8 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 7 August 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Noreen Nasir, Associated Press:
"It’s one of the most complex and sensitive subjects in world sports — Sex eligibility tests for women’s events. It’s erupted at the Paris Olympics with an intense focus on women’s boxing and two athletes in particular — Imane Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu-ting from Taiwan. Both will win medals as they face false accusations over their gender identity and debate over whether they should even compete. It’s all exposing how governing bodies of different sports make determinations over who is eligible in women’s events, and how.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 6 August 2024
2. Khelif celebrating after defeating Suwannapheng ++OVERLAID WITH SOUNDBITE 1++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris,- 4 August 2024
3. STILL of Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting celebrating after defeating Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva in their women’s 57 kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics ++OVERLAID WITH SOUNDBITE 1++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 2 August 2024
3. STILL of Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng, right, fighting Khelif in their women’s 66 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID WITH SOUNDBITE 1& SOUNDBITE 4++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 7 August 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Noreen Nasir, Associated Press:
"The governing bodies of track and field and swimming have spent years drafting rules that they say balance fairness, inclusion and safety. They’ve grown increasingly strict over time, and have risked exposing athletes to humiliation and abuse. The emphasis has been on athletes – assigned female at birth and identifying as women – with differences of sex development, including levels of natural testosterone higher than the typical female range. Sports officials say that gives them an unfair advantage over other women in sports, but the science is inconclusive."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 1 August 2024
5. STILL of Algeria’s Imane Khelif, right, walking beside Italy’s Angela Carini after their women’s 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics++OVERLAID WITH SOUDNBITE 4++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 2 August 2024
6. STILL of Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng, right, fighting Khelif in their women’s 66 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics ++OVERLAID WITH SOUDNBITE 4++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 6 August 2024
7. STILL of Khelif celebrating after defeating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in their women’s 66 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 7 August 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Noreen Nasir, Associated Press:
"Track’s rules are still part of a European Court of Human Rights case. That’ll take some months, maybe years, to resolve. In the meantime, other sports’ governing bodies, athletes and advocates are watching and waiting."
STORYLINE:
Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women’s sports.
Athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout.
Both will win medals as they face false accusations over their gender identity and debate over whether they should even compete.
When eligibility for women’s events has come into question, it often has been a legally difficult process for sports bodies that has risked exposing athletes to humiliation and abuse.
Each governing body of an Olympic sport is responsible for drafting its own rules, from the field of play to who is eligible to play.
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