IOC faces legal challenge over Imane Khelif’s Olympic fights in wake of Donald Trump order Khelif and Lin Yu-ting were part of a gender row at the 2024 Games, where each boxer won a gold medal.
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 International Boxing Association (IBA) has said it will lodge a complaint against the International Olympic Committee (IOC), relating to Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting’s fights at the 2024 Games.
Algeria’s Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin each won a gold medal in boxing in Paris, but their victories were overshadowed by a gender row, with the IBA claiming the fighters had failed gender eligibility tests at the 2022 World Championships.
While, to all knowledge, Khelif and Lin were born and raised as women and have never identified as transgender or intersex, the IOC is now facing a legal challenge from the IBA, prompted by an executive order by US President Donald Trump.
