{"id":125769,"date":"2025-09-01T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125769\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:01:08","slug":"imane-khelif-appeals-world-boxing-genetic-sex-test-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125769\/","title":{"rendered":"Imane Khelif appeals World Boxing genetic sex test ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Olympic champion Imane Khelif has appealed against a World Boxing decision barring her from upcoming events unless she undergoes\u00a0genetic sex testing.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/06\/sports\/controversial-boxer-imane-khelif-skipping-competition-following-world-boxings-new-mandatory-sex-testing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Algerian boxer filed the appeal last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif was bidding to compete in the world boxing championships which start on Thursday, but CAS added that on Monday it dismissed a request to suspend the World Boxing decision until the case was heard.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36993062\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/algerias-imane-khelif-poses-defeating-105580106.jpg\" alt=\"Imane Khelif, gold medalist in women's 66 kg boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.\" class=\"wp-image-36993062\"  \/>Algeria\u2019s Imane Khelif poses after defeating China\u2019s Yang Liu to win gold in their women\u2019s 66 kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics. AP<\/p>\n<p>Khelif won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics last year amid international scrutiny on her and Taiwan\u2019s Lin Yu-ting, another gold medal winner. The previous governing body for Olympic boxing, the Russian-dominated International Boxing Association, disqualified both fighters from its 2023 world championships after claiming they failed unspecified eligibility tests.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But the IBA was banished because of decades of misdeeds and controversy. The IOC ran the past two Olympic boxing tournaments in its place and it applied the sex eligibility rules used in previous Olympics. Under those standards, Khelif and Lin were eligible to compete.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44837341;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36993073\" width=\"855\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/imane-khelif-team-algeria-punches-105756558.jpg\" alt=\"A boxer from Algeria punches a boxer from China during a boxing match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Imane Khelif of Team Algeria punches Liu Yang of Team People's Republic of China during the Boxing Women's 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024\" class=\"wp-image-36993073\"  \/>Imane Khelif of Team Algeria punches Liu Yang of Team People\u2019s Republic of China during the Boxing Women\u2019s 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing has since been provisionally approved as the boxing organizer at the 2028 Los Angeles Games and has faced pressure from boxers and their federations to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/30\/sports\/imane-khelif-banned-from-boxing-event-with-new-gender-test-coming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create sex eligibility standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the governing body announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes and specifically mentioned Khelif when announcing the policy \u2014 something\u00a0it later apologized\u00a0for.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif plans to defend her welterweight gold medal at the LA Games.\u00a0New IOC president Kirsty Coventry\u00a0has initiated a task force to look at gender eligibility issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Olympic champion Imane Khelif has appealed against a World Boxing decision barring her from upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2568,70277,99,60007],"class_list":{"0":"post-125769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-imane-khelif","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-transgender-athletes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}