The European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization said the warned the International Olympic Committee that Imane Khelif is male but they ignored him.
István Kovács didn’t just warn the IOC about Khelif, but also about four other boxers who had been examined and are also male.
Here’s more from Reduxx:
A Hungarian sports official has come out and stated that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not female. István Kovács, the European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association, told Hungarian press that he had warned the International Olympic Committee about males participating in women’s boxing as early as 2022, but that nothing was done.
In a shocking statement made to Magyar Nemzet yesterday, Kovács confirmed the speculation surrounding the Algerian boxer, adding that it had been known as early as 2022 that Khelif was biologically male.
“The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” Kovács said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet, adding that a total of five boxers had been examined including Khelif by the International Boxing Association, and all of them “were indeed men.”
Kovács asserted that he personally reported the shocking result immediately to the International Olympics Committee, “but as unbelievable as it is, they have not responded to this to this day.”
Clearly Kovács wasn’t concerned so much about the testosterone levels, but about the gender test which revealed Khelif and the others are male. But after watching what went on in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, I am not shocked in the least that they ignored him. This is what the IOC wanted and this is what they are getting. It’s outrageous.