Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from IOC

Olympics chief slams ‘unacceptable’ hate speech against boxers in gender row

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach condemned the "hate speech" targeting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting, saying that a wider, Russia-led "defamation campaign" against the IOC and the Paris Games was fueling the controversy.

France 24

IOC president weighs in on Olympic boxing gender controversy: ‘This is the definition of a woman’

Thomas Bach defended boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif and their place at Paris 2024 after failing gender eligibility tests run by the International Boxing Association

The Independent UK

Afghan sister cyclists fly the flag of a fallen country at the Paris Olympics

Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi fled Kabul after the city once again fell to the Taliban in 2021. Three years later, the sister cyclists are riding alongside one another in the 2024 Paris Olympics women’s road race on Sunday, proudly bearing the black, red and green Afghan tricolour torn down by…

France 24

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

IOC President Condemns Hate Speech Against Boxers At Olympics

IOC President condemns hate speech towards boxers Khelif and Lin, highlighting gender discrimination in sports at Paris Olympics.

Top News

Thomas Bach demands respect for boxers at centre of gender controversy

The IOC president said ‘hate speech’ aimed at Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif was ‘totally unacceptable’.

The Independent UK

The 2024 Paris Olympics Finally Achieved This One Incredibly Basic But Challenging Goal

Women’s participation in the Olympics unofficially began at the second edition of the modern Games, also held in Paris in 1900.

Inverse

IOC leader says 'hate speech' directed at Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at Olympics is unacceptable

IOC President Thomas Bach says the “hate speech” directed at two women boxers at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.”

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Watch: IOC and Paris Olympics officials hold press conference amid boxing row

Watch as International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Paris 2024 officials held a press conference on Saturday, 3 August.

The Independent UK

Olympics 2024: International Boxing Association to award Angela Carini prize money for defeat to Imane Khelif

Carini has apologised to Khelif for the level of scrutiny she has faced

Evening Standard

Controversial Algerian boxer's father says attacks on daughter are 'immoral'

Amar Khelif defended his daughter amid the worldwide storm over her eligibility to fight at the games

Evening Standard

Angela Carini Apologises To Imane Khelif Over Comments That Sparked Olympic Gender Controversy

Angela Carini apologised to fellow female boxer Imane Khelif for her post-match behaviour that fuelled a gender controversy at Paris 2024.

Pedestrian.tv

The legacy of Paris puts future Olympics at risk

Paris set a new standard for future hosts.

Fortune

Explained: Why are some debating the sex of two women boxers at Paris Olympics

Alleged to be a 'biological male', Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has reignited the debate over sex classification following a bout at the Paris Games

The Times of India

Angela Carini to be awarded prize money by IBA despite Olympic loss to Imane Khelif

The Italian pulled out in the first round against the Algerian amid a gender row at Paris 2024

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

In the Olympics boxing arena, facts and fairness are taking a battering

Hugely complex, essentially irresolvable issues have been flattened in the toxic furore over the inclusion of Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif in the women’s competition

Salon

Culture war ignites in women's boxing

After a boxer withdrew from a match, Trump, JK Rowling and Elon Musk spread misinformation about her opponent

Salon

Italian boxer sorry amid transphobic war

Angela Carini apologized for her treatment of opponent Imane Khelif, and for a transphobic storm that brewed after

USA Today Sports Media Group

Olympic boxer Lin Yu-Ting dominates as gender eligibility issue unfolds

Controversy surrounding gender eligibility in boxing at the Paris Games has sparked outrage, including from honorary U.S. coach Jake Paul.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Top News

Russian Tennis Players Win Medals As Individual Neutral Athletes

Russian tennis players Andreeva and Shnaider make history at Paris Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes, securing medals despite not representing Russia.

Evening Standard

Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-ting wins first fight at Paris Games amid boxing gender row

Along with Imane Khelif, Lin is allowed to compete despite having been disqualified from last year’s World Championships for failing a gender test

The Independent UK

Angela Carini ‘wants to apologise’ to Imane Khelif for aftermath of controversial Olympic boxing bout

Carini abandoned the bout after just 46 seconds and afterwards refused to hug or shake the hand of Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test at last year’s Boxing World Championship

1 … 19 20 21 22

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Olympic Committee

208 stories

the International Boxing Association

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.