Imane Khelif appeals sex testing requirements.

[ThatZanyFatball]

Good luck with that.

Olympic champion Imane Khelif fights World Boxing’s genetic sex testing rule

Well he would wouldnt he.

Well he would

On what super special basis? 🍿

What possible grounds for appeal has he?

Lin from Taiwan has also mysteriously withdrawn from the championships despite saying he was going to enter.

What a massive surprise.

Uh-oh! Someone's afraid he's going to get rumbled as the man we all knew he was!

All the actual female athletes welcomed the cheek swab sex test and were happy for it to be brought back.

Of course he is - unlike him those cheek swabs aren’t going to lie.

You think he’d realise the game is up and just fuck off!
He’s made a lot of money for thumping women and very luckily got away with it.
All the male boxers in the female category should have their medals stripped and they should be re-awarded to the rightful female winners.
I hate the scam he has pulled.

All other female boxers got organised and got their testing done before Thursday's event, yet Khelif went immediately to try to force WB to make a concession just for him.

Sounds a lot like he just wanted one more boxing win, just one more sponsorship opportunity before going through court about the mandatory testing and the Einhoven Cup action. So he tried to manipulate it so he wouldn't have to produce a test now that would jeopardise the outcome of his court case.

I do look forward to seeing whether the WB defence will be able to force the production of any PCR test result in the CAS trial. I suspect that Khelif's team will not produce any, will lose the case and Khelif will retire.

I thought he was intent on suingJKR for saying he was a man. That seems to have been dropped. If he is a woman, wouldn’t it be so easy to take the test then sue everyone he wants.

It's just a little bit of saliva. What possible reason could any female athlete have for declining 🤔

I am sure I saw a headline vindicating Imane Kelif who had ‘proved’ she was a women after all. I was extremely surprised but didn’t have time to stop and check. This makes more sense, tbh.

Bring it on love.

Well there's a big surprise. He's just proving he's a man without even doing the test.

It's all hot air to try and pr his way out of the situation.

I doubt there will be a court case. It's all about the optics in Algeria and being able to claim racism and unfair treatment without a loss of face.

Even if this does go to court, the evidence about risk to women is so great it will be deemed proportionate on safety grounds. So I'm not remotely concerned.

I am just waiting for the 'im sorry we handled this wrongly and were wrong' from all those who prattled on about prejudice and how Khelif was a woman. So far there's tumbleweeds.

Well, there's a surprise... 🙄

Does anyone in Algeria think he’s a woman, given his treatment by the coach?

Yes, I was wondering about the JKR thing. That's gone very quiet.

This. Hope they’ve got plenty of humble pie in. If not I can give them some of my popcorn 🍿

Typical male entitled behaviour 🧐

This bloke is the epitome of 'literal violence'.

Exactly what I thought, he knows he will fail, he knows he is male.

I've had a quick trawl through some French-language Algerian news websites [I don't have Arabic] and it looks like a lot of them aren't really talking bout IK much at all - searches returning nothing at all. Defending the indefensible too difficult??

I found one site, La Gazette de Fennec, which on the contrary is running lots of stories on him , including the [alleged] inside story on what happened with the coach who said he was going to retire from boxing. [he is a baddie who never had IK's back, apparently....]

He is referred to as a woman but there are a couple of references to the challenges to IK's biological sex, which are strangely matter-of-fact, let's-wait-and-see, rather than the previous 'how dare they say that about our wonderful National Heroine' and 'it's all a plot by the evil Moroccans..'

One interesting point from that report was that in order to get a professional contract, IK needed to compete in 5 more amateur contests - don't ask me why 5, I'm just quoting! Which would explain the panic around testing having to take place right now, because IK wouldn't be able to achieve the 5 bouts needed to turn pro.

So there's probably a whole retinue of investors and backers and the shady figures that proliferate in pro boxing, waiting to see if IK is certifiably female and worth investing in, or certifiably male in which case he will probably be discarded like a losing betting slip.

Oh dear.

What a shame.

Sad times.