The affair seemed to be over. She picks up speed. According to a medical report revealed by a journalist from the French-speaking online media The CorrespondentAlgerian boxer Imane Khelif, gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Games in less than 66 kilos, would actually be a man. The document details the results of a medical examination carried out in June 2023 at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital center in Paris, with the support of the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers. He assures that the female boxer, at the center of an endless controversy during the last Games, has XY chromosomes, typically associated with the male sex, and has internal testicles. The exam also reveals the presence of a micropenis and absence of a uterus, symptoms of a disorder called 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which alters sexual development. As a reminder, Imane Khelif was disqualified by the IBA from the 2023 women's world championships in New Delhi, after medical tests, the results of which the body chaired by Russian Umar Kremlev did not wish to communicate. But she was authorized by the IOC to participate in the Paris 2024 Games, Lausanne highlighting that she has a women's passport and has spent her entire sporting career in the women's ranks. Unsurprisingly, the IBA was quick to react to the revelations of Corresponding. In a press release sent Tuesday, November 5, Umar Kremlev attacks the IOC and its president, Thomas Bach, believing that they have “ violated all the rules of sport by pitting a man against a woman. » The Russian asks Thomas Bach and his team to “ present a verbal and written apology to the global boxing community (…), to kneel and apologize to the girls who were beaten and abused. » Unlikely that will happen.
