The International Boxing Association is suing the International Olympic Committee for allowing boxers Lin Yu-ting from Taiwan and Imane Khelif from Algeria to compete in women's boxing at the 2024 Paris Games. The two athletes, neither of whom are transgender, were banned from competing in an event by the IBA in 2023.
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00:00The International Boxing Association says it's suing the International Olympic Committee
00:05for allowing two athletes to compete in last year's summer games.
00:10Taiwan's Ling Ruoting and Algeria's Iman Khalif both won gold in women's boxing at the Paris
00:16Olympics.
00:17Both were earlier disqualified from the IBA's 2023 World Championships amid speculation
00:23over their gender.
00:24The boxing association was subsequently expelled from the Olympic movement.
00:29After filing a complaint in Switzerland where the Olympic Committee is based, the association
00:33have said they'll also pursue legal action in France and the United States.
00:38The IBA's head cited U.S. President Donald Trump's order to ban transgender athletes
00:43from women's sporting events as validating their efforts to, quote, protect the integrity
00:49of female sports.
00:50Neither Ling Ruoting nor Iman Khalif is transgendered.