IBA welcomes lawsuit threatened by Imane Khelif | MMA News
The International Boxing Association (IBA) doesn’t appear to be afraid of current threats made by Algerian boxer Imane Khelif to take legal motion in opposition to them. This stems from the IBA initially releasing a assertion during which they threatened to take legal motion in opposition to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for permitting Khelif and Lin YU-ting to compete within the novice feminine division during the Paris Olympics final 12 months. There, Khelif received a gold medal within the girls’s 66kg (welterweight) competitors. As for YU-ting, she received gold within the featherweight division, turning into the primary Taiwanese boxer to take action.
IBA president Umar Kremlev launched a assertion, suggesting they welcome the chance to show in court docket that Khelif and YU-ting didn’t meet the eligibility necessities to compete within the girls’s competitors.
“We received great news that the IOC will face the consequences of their decisions, as Imane Khelif is going to proceed with legal actions against the IBA, We are really glad, as we will be able to prove in court that Khelif, based on eligibility criteria, was not allowed to compete in female boxing events in order to guarantee safety and fair chance to women competitors.”
“We will insist on the forensic medical examination, which is able to show our place, and we’ll talk the result accordingly. Thomas Bach (the IOC president) might be personally accountable to the law for what he did.”
It was added that the executive order for United States President Donald Trump “Keeping men out of women’s sports” lends credence to their attempts to uphold the integrity of female sports and protect female boxers against unfair competition.
Earlier in the week the IBA also claimed in a statement “In gentle of the gender eligibility points surrounding boxers in 2022 and 2023, the IBA proactively performed all needed testing and subsequently banned people deemed ineligible from taking part in girls’s competitions.
“Despite notifying the IOC about the disqualification of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, the IOC disregarded this critical information, allowing both athletes to compete in the qualifiers and ultimately at the 2024 Olympics, where they secured gold medals, denying opportunities to deserving female athletes.
“The statement also added that the IBA would be filing an official complaint with the Attorney-General of Switzerland, Stefan Blätter, for the IOC’s actions that led to the two ineligible athletes competing in the 2024 Olympic tournament.
“According to the Swiss law, any action or inaction that poses a safety risk to competition participants warrants investigation and may serve as grounds for criminal prosecution. In addition, similar complaints are to be filed with the Attorneys-General of France and the US,” the assertion mentioned.
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