Imane Khelif has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on the decision of World Boxing to ban the 26-year-old from his events without a provisional genetic sex test.
A court statement said that Khelif was made on August 5 to destroy a decision by the World Boxing that blocked the participation of the Algerijns in the Box Cup in Eindhoven or a World Boks event until a genetic sex test had taken place.
The appeal is also looking for a Cas statement that is eligible Khelif to participate without a test in the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, which take place between 4 and 14 September.
The court statement said that a request to ban the decision of World Boxing to ban Khelif until the case was heard was rejected on Monday. Written entries are exchanged between the parties, according to the court statement, and a hearing will be planned with their agreement.
Khelif won Olympic women’s welfare gold in Paris last summer in Paris, because he was acquitted to compete by the International Olympic Committee, despite the fact that the International Boxing Association Khelif has banned from the world championships of the previous year due to alleged criteria for Gender’s suitability.
After winning gold, Khelif said: “I am fully qualified to participate in this competition – I am a woman.
“I was born as a woman, I lived as a woman and I participated as a woman. There is no doubt that there are enemies of success, and that gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.”
Taiwan’s Lin will miss world championships
Lin Yu-Ting, the other boxer engaged in the Gender fitness row row at the Paris Olympic Games last year, will not compete in the upcoming world championships.
An officer at the Taiwan Boxing Association, which would rather not be called, confirmed the absence of Lin on Tuesday, but refused to provide further details. Her coach, Tseng Tzu-Chiang, had insisted in August that Lin had no plans to skip the event in Liverpool.
“She did not consider withdrawing from the competition because of the new genderdests. We will submit all relevant documents requested by the organizers as part of normal procedures,” Tseng had said at the time. Reuters
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