Pylos, Greece – a sex dispute with the participation of two boxers at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. He was the result of a Russian false information campaign and had little to do with reality, said on Saturday the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.
Bach, who gives way in June after 12 years as a president, said that the IOC must fight many similar campaigns before and after Paris matches.
The boxing competition at the Paris Games was conducted by the IOC after the international boxing association of the Association of Returnia was deprived of last year due to lack of reforms in the field of management and finance. But the association, led by the Russian businessman Umara Kremlev with close connections with Kremlin, accused the IOC of permission to compete two athletes, IMane Khelif and Lin Yu-Inting, which were banned by IBA, citing a chromosome test, competition.
There was a bitter war of words between organizations.
“I would not consider it a real crisis, because the whole discussion is based on a false information campaign from Russia,” said Bach Reuters in the southern Greek coastal resort, where his successor will be elected on Thursday. “It was part of many, many false information campaigns with which we had to face Russia before Paris and Paris.”
Several such campaigns took place before Paris, including what the IOC said at that time were repetitive attempts at hacking, as well as a joke of the Russian group addressed to Bach and pretending to be representatives of the African Union committee.
Bach said that the dispute over boxers would have been a failure if it wasn’t for IBA, considering that two boxers had been competing for years, including at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, without problems.
The IOC does not have a universal principle of the participation of athletes or transgender athletes with differences in sexual development, with each federation developing its own regulations.
Bach also said that he had no concerns about the preparation for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028, calling US President Donald Trump a forceful supporter and promoter of the project.
“Let the Organizational Committee … Continue cooperation with President Trump and its administration, because they established very good relations,” said Bach, asked what his advice is for his successors regarding the Olympic Games and Trump in Los Angeles. “The IOC should trust in his American partners and friends and the confidence that President Trump from the very beginning was a forceful supporter and promoter of the Olympic Games.”