Before Imane Khelif confounded the critics and won gold, Steve Bunce discussed the ongoing turmoil.
THE guilty again innocent of everything sports deserve fairness to hear. It's just Khelif He didn't do it fair to hear from boxing in Paris. Algerian boxer for those under 66 years of age This is what the class has been like the whole world is condemned and actually political center story, surrounded crazy again ignorance and bias and unknown.
It's difficult separate truth from hysteria and much of what is called truth based on things they may not have it happened. It's like something from The Cold War. The pursuit of Khelif is IBA, a disgraced organization that once ran boxing, and weak defense
IOC boxer united to He made an incendiary cesspit of hatred again shame. I've had death threats, too you can only imagine how Khelif is suffering I have to be patient.
Hhere is history and it is not easy reading. See, all the pieces of this sick jigsaw depends on it belief in the IBA vaccine; put Simply put, I don't know and why should I? Unlike thousands of young professionals, they are all determined to destroy Khelif's life, I did I was at the IBA Championships in Budapest, Houston, Plovdiv, Antalya, Belfast and, obviously, the Rio Olympics. I have it I have been an eyewitness of coups, threats and some of the more violent sports decisions. And, you guessed it, everything decision, hence the IBA's request, was taken in the interest of sports in the heart. Try telling that to Michael Conlan.
Dubeat the last seven years of turmoil I have carefully watched their descent again fall, watching as they take the game on the edge of oblivion. However, surprisingly, they released a few newspapers statements making claims about Khelif's gender and suddenly become the those who hold the truth, men who have interests sports at their core! Little by little reliable and amazing change. Again it would be comic if the fall-out wasn't there
it has progressed to the worst and possible deadly strife.
It it was hard to keep up with it changes in IBA statements, i amendments, new words. There was boldly talking about testosterone levels about two weeks ago, it was said there was one test and suddenly there it was two trials and then denial Testosterone tests were once taken. I the words “gender test” and “gender test” were tossed around as compliments in marriage and somehow, in this crazy cauldron The Olympic circus, all the madness is caught and Khelif is condemned.
Then, earlier this week, the head of the IBA, Umar Kremlev, went back and talked about testosterone levels during a chaotic and hastily called press conference in Paris. At the conference, which was full of conflict, the Kremlin called Thomas Bach of the IOC,
“chief of the Sodomites”. For him, as I said, it was difficult to continue. We were told by the IBA that the results were “incomplete” both times (I have that on tape) and are also confidential, the people doing the results were “honest”, and that all the IBA wanted was the integrity of the team. sports to stay uninjured.
It it seemed like five days the world had eaten the word of IBA as the gospel. I was “sicko” with doubts, to in the IOC pocket, a misogynist, a a beast that beats a woman. Wow, it was endless. I'm just a boxing writer/broadcaster as well an IBA specialist. It started to change when examining Khelif's health, he Algerian rural life, ten kilometers walking to the gym to save on bus fare, his hero status, his childhood photos girl, her role as a UNICEF ambassador and and there is a pain in his face every time he is there appeared near the Paris ring. Pain and tears.
Men – especially white – who he had attacked him with the evidence of the IBA alone, until they began to doubt themselves attack; papers reversed, found person on the desk to write i the other half. Other shops she stopped calling him a man. I am not he will compose the words of thought
who reached out to me to support me Khelif and I will not say them list of shame who piled up because it was, according to them, clear that Khelif is a “geezer”.
And that is, I believe, at the heart of this cruelty – the the way Khelif looks. Think about that second: I am ashamed to know people who will condemn someone because of the way they look.
It's not over with Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting, another athlete named BE. Well, I hope this column has he corrected other prejudices as well expose some errors. become, who ended up being excluded last summer from running the Olympics, it will continue their fight, disdain Olympic boxing, a a gem they have used for decades.
Hopefully, we have a place in LA 2028 and the IOC can use World Boxing as their partner. World Boxing will be there have the strength and need to find a way to satisfy everyone involved in the wars they are correct. The IOC does not decide on gender in the news, it is the work of celebrities governing body. Clarity and common sense what is needed will come too late save Khelif and Lin from the misery of Paris.
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