Overview
- CAS confirmed Imane Khelif’s August 5 appeal against World Boxing’s requirement and request to compete without testing at the Liverpool World Championships, but denied a suspensive effect.
- No hearing date has been set, leaving Khelif effectively barred from imminent competitions including the Worlds that open September 4 in Liverpool.
- World Boxing’s regulation conditions entry to the female category on a PCR test showing absence of the SRY gene on the Y chromosome for athletes aged 18 and over.
- Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting underwent the required screening and her federation submitted results, yet with no response from World Boxing she will not compete in Liverpool.
- The dispute revives genetic screening used from 1968 to 1996 and now sits alongside an IOC working group launched in June to craft guidance on female-category access across sports.