A former Olympian and current Spanish boxing coach has criticised the participation of athletes who are said to have male chromosomes in the Olympics.
Rafael Lozano, a former boxer and current coach of the Spanish national team, spoke to Spanish media. Radio Marca Controversial Olympic boxers Imane Kheriff and Lin Yuting. Both won gold medals in the women’s Olympic Games but were previously embroiled in controversy after failing gender tests.
Lozano, believed to be the last Spanish boxer to win an Olympic medal, said he had coached Kherif at Bloom, a sports training centre in Madrid.
“I don’t think that’s fair. I don’t think it’s fair.”
“They were doing a training camp in Broome. [Khelif] With anyone. With Jennifer Fernandez, she was hurt. With anyone. [Khelif] “It hurt her,” Lozano said (translated by Google and Brave Browser).
The coach then said it would be fairer to play Kheriff against men.
“We put her together with Jose Quiles. [equal]”From my point of view, I don’t think it’s fair,” the coach admitted.
Kires is Spain’s top boxer, having won two silver medals in international competitions in 2022 and 2023.
Lozano added that it would be “not fair” for Khelif and Lin to compete in the women’s category at the Olympics.
“I don’t think it’s fair. I don’t think it’s fair. Everybody can think what they want to think, but that’s the way I see it,” he concluded.
Kherif won the gold medal in the women’s 66 kg class in Paris with a dominant victory in all three matches, not losing a single round.
However, since the start of the Olympics, boxing’s two governing bodies have maintained that Khelif is in fact a man.
The International Boxing Association has disqualified the boxer from the 2023 world championships, after IBA president Umar Kremlev said at the time that Kherif has “XY chromosomes.”
Less than a week after the Olympic controversy began, the World Boxing Organization’s European vice president said Kherif was one of several athletes in the women’s division who had been identified as male.
“The issue was not with Kherif’s testosterone levels, which can now be adjusted, but rather the results of the sex test which clearly showed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” WBO’s Istvan Kovac said. Redux.
Since winning the gold medal, Kherif has filed a lawsuit against France over alleged online harassment over the gender test.
The complaint was submitted to the Paris Office for Combating Online Hate Speech, in which Kherif claimed he was the victim of “vicious cyber harassment.”
In a statement, Mr Khelif’s lawyer, Nabil Boudi, said his client had been subjected to a “misogynistic, racist and sexist campaign”. NBC News Reported.
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