The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed until the participation of two competitors to the Paris Games in women's boxing - Algerian Imane Helif and Lin Yu-Tin from Taiwan, although there is doubt about their biological sex. Both have elevated testosterone levels and failed the gender test last year, which has kept them out of the World Boxing Championships by the International Boxing Federation. This caused a big scandal at the Olympics in France. Including we are damaged because Yu-Tin faced our Svetlana Kamenova and defeated her.
The judges decided so.
The IOC refused to do a chromosome test on the two, citing what was written in their passports – a woman. Extraordinary and especially for them tests were discriminatory.
On this occasion, the Secretary General of the BOC Belcho Goranov and the chief physician of our Olympic delegation, Dr. Stefan Strugarov, met on July 27 with Prof. Dr. Roald Barr, Chairman of the Paris 2024 Group of the Medical and Scientific Commission of the IOC. the meeting was also attended by Dr. Jane Thornton, who has been appointed as the new Scientific and Medical Director of the IOC.
Dr. Barr then explained that the two athletes were admitted to the Paris Games, complying with all the rules and meeting all the criteria, and that the IOC has no practice and will not conduct gender tests once the passport says gender " female". The IOC is currently organizing the boxing tournament in Paris because it excluded the International Boxing Association from the Olympic movement due to “problems within the federation”.
For its part, the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) said it wanted to file a formal complaint about the case, to which Dr. Barr replied that such a complaint would not be upheld, but if it was insisted upon, it should be addressed to the IOC.
The BOC's reaction came after the withdrawal of Angela Carini, who exited the ring after just 45 seconds against Heliffe in a round of 66 match. The Italian's words were: “I hit like a man, very hard.” And she left the ring in tears.
The two competitors, Helif and Yu-tin, failed the gender test at the World Boxing Championships in Doha last year,
and now the head of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Umar Kremlev has stated that the tests were carried out by medical specialists "at the request of the contestants".
“At MBA, we do everything transparently. The only thing we cannot provide is medical documents. As president, I can't do that - the documents contain people's personal data, genetic data," he continued.
"The contestants agreed to be examined and the analysis showed that they have strong genes,", Kremlev points out.
The MBA has done tests, but cannot reveal the information. The IOC does not want to test because the passport says - female. But there is one test that will reveal all. It is the test of life that offers every woman the opportunity to hear the word – mom. Will Imane Heliffe and Lin Yu-Tin of Taiwan hear her…