World Boxing, which has since been recognised by the IOC as the sport’s international federation, has introduced mandatory sex testing and said Khelif would not be able to compete in the female category until she undergoes the test. Khelif has always insisted she was born a woman, has lived as a woman and has competed as a woman.
Announcing the shift in policy, Coventry said: “There was overwhelming support that we should protect the female category. And with that, we will set up a working group made up of experts and international federations.
The new policy is expected to ban transgender and athletes with a difference of sex development from competing in the female category. However Coventry was clear there would be no changes to results of previous Olympics.
“We are not going to be doing anything retrospectively,” she said. “We are going to be looking forward. From the members that were here, it was ‘what are we learning from the past and how are we going to leverage that and move that forward to the future’.”
奧委會/女性競賽