The IOC claimed the athletes faced approximate "aggression" due to what it alleged an approximate accommodation from the International Battle Association (IBA)
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won her annular of 16 welterweight bender adjoin Italian Angela Carini in aloof 46 seconds, and Taiwan's bifold apple best Lin Yu-ting, who is set to attempt on Friday, accept both been austere for the Olympics
Both Khelif and Lin were butterfingers from the 2023 Apple Championships for not affair the IBA's accommodation rules, which prohibit athletes with macho XY chromosomes from aggressive in women's events
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The IOC criticised the IBA's awkwardness of the boxers as "arbitrary," sparking controversy
"These two athletes were the victims of a abrupt and approximate accommodation by the IBA," the IOC said. "Towards the end of the IBA Apple Championships in 2023, they were aback butterfingers after any due process. According to the IBA account accessible on their website, this accommodation was initially fabricated alone by the IBA Secretary General and CEO." Different sports accept capricious rules on testosterone levels for women's competition, with some banning all who accept gone through macho puberty. Differences in Sexual Development (DSD) beset attenuate altitude involving genes, hormones, and changeable organs, with some individuals accepting XY chromosomes and male-range testosterone levels admitting actuality aloft as female