Chaos to Liverpool: Imane Khelif banned and the French female team started the fiasco of the gender test

What a mess. Liverpool World Championships should show that worldwide could do better than IBA. Instead, the week’s struggle became a circus before it was even thrown. The Olympic champion Imane Khelif is banned. The whole French women’s team is banned. And the reason? The chaos of gender tests, lost deadlines and rules that no one can agree.

Iman Khelif, 26, has not fought since he won gold in Paris 2024, surpassing the Yang Liu of China 5-0 in the heavy weight final. This should be cemented by his legacy, but the noise about his eligibility never stopped. The IBA banned it in 2023, claiming that it failed gender eligibility controls. The IOC came in at that time, called this sentence “A sudden and arbitrary decision”He cleaned her to fight in Paris, where Lin Yu-Yu-Yy-Taiwan moved away with gold. Now the world box has turned otherwise, demanding mandatory sex tests throughout the table.

Khelif talks, world boxing bends

Khelif’s position has not changed. After Paris, he said: “I am fully qualified to participate in this competition: I am a woman. I was born a woman, I have lived as a woman and I have competed as a woman. There is no doubt that there are enemies of success and this gives my success a special taste due to these attacks.”

But the new World Boxing line is simple: no SRY gene test, no struggle. His team called on the Sport Arbitration Court but Sky Sports Confirmed nothing has been submitted. He also made it clear that these things take weeks, so he was never erased for Liverpool.

The French team trapped in the trap

If Khelif’s case was not messy enough, the French women’s team was affected by pure bureaucracy. His federation, FFBoxe, said that the workforce could not even do the tests in France because the law prohibits this type of genetic screening. So they waited until they landed in England. The tests were performed, but the results did not do the deadline. Five fighters – missing.

The Federation was vivid: “It is with stupefaction and outrage that the French team learned … the French women’s boxing team would not be able to compete,” They exploded, blaming the World Boxing’s accredited laboratory for not being given timely. One of the fighters, Malys Richol, also did not hide his feelings: “After a whole year of work we are launched not for sports reasons, but by disastrous and unfair management.”

The same old policy, a different badge

World boxing was supposed to clean the mess that IBA left. Instead, his first major sample seems to be Déjà Vu. Athletes do not lose the ring, but at the Administration Office. Fans watching the prohibited champions while federations discuss the deadlines.

My dam: The IOC has already hit IBA for “arbitrary” bans. Now the world box repeats the same error, only with a different label. If this continues, no matter who is responsible. Fighters will continue to be hooked, fans will lose the confidence and credibility of the sport will further sink.