Olympic gold medallist Imane Khelif has officially been banned from competing in World Boxing events less than a year after competing at the Paris Games.
A year before the Olympic Games, Khelif failed the International Boxing Association (IBA) gender eligibility tests at the World Championships, but was cleared by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete in Paris. The IOC used passport information as their source of eligibility.
And now, nearly a year after the Paris Olympics, Khelif has been banned from competing in all future World Boxing events in the women’s category, unless she can provide proof of being biologically female. They recently confirmed that Khelif would be cleared to compete in the female division of next week’s Eindhoven World Cup, if she passed mandatory sex screening. But as the 26-year-old has not submitted to any such test in the nine months since the Olympics, World Boxing have now handed her an indefinite ban.
It's over. And now JK Rowling is demanding they take away her gold medal.