Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Olympic champion IMane Khelif skipped Eindhoven Box Cup in the Netherlands less than a week after world sex tests for all athletes.
Algerian boxer, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer among the control of its qualification, did not register before closing the application on Thursday.
“The decision to exclude IMane is not ours. We regret it,” said Dirk Renders for the Associated Press.
Khelif intended to return to the international competition at the Eindhoven Hotel, before World Boxing announced a novel sexual test policy last Friday. The managing body specifically mentioned Khelif, saying that it would have to check to be approved for any upcoming events, including at the Eindhoven Box Cup.
Mayor Eindhoven Jeroen Dijsselbloem criticized the decision of world boxing.
“As for us, all athletes are welcome in Eindhoven. With the exception of athletes based on the controversial” sex tests “certainly does not match this,” wrote Dijsselbloem in a letter addressed to the Dutch Federation Boxing and the International Federation. Imane Khelif. “
Khelif won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer among the international control of her and Taiwan Lin Yu-Tinta, another winner of the golden medal. The previous Olympic box managing body, dominated by Russia, international boxing association, disqualified both fighters from their 2023 world championships after they claimed that they failed to infected the qualification tests.
But Iba was banished for decades and controversies. The IOC led the last two Olympic boxing tournaments in its place and applied the principles of sexual eligibility used at previous Olympic Games. Khelif and Lin could compete according to these standards.
Since then, World Boxing has been temporarily approved as a boxing organizer at the Los Angeles Games in 2028 and stood in the face of the pressure of boxers and their federation to create gender qualifying standards.
His president, Boris Van der Vorst, apologized after Khelif was awarded in the announcement of the management body last week.
Khelif planned to defend her gold medal at the LA Games, but some boxers and their federations have already spoken against it.
Khelif won gold at the Eindhoven party last year, defeating Australian Marissa Williamson-Tohlman in the final.
Algerian also competed as delicate in the Tokyo Games in 2021, losing the quarter finals with the final gold medalist Kellie Harrington from Ireland.