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International Olympic Committee (IOC)
President Thomas Bach told ANSA on Friday that the IOC will
clarify the situation after meeting Italian Premier Giorgia
Meloni amid a future over Thursday's women's boxing match at
Paris 2024 between Italy's Angela Carini and Imane Khelif, an
Algerian who was disqualified from last year's world
championships for failing gender-eligibility tests.
But he also stressed the Khelif "is a woman".
The IOC has used a different set of rules for admission to the
Paris 2024 tournament than those for the women's boxing world
championships.
"It was a positive meeting, the Carini case was among the things
we talked about," Bach said after the encounter with Meloni.
"We agreed to stay in touch to 'welcome' the same scientific
background and make the situation more understandable because
she (Khelif, ed.) is a woman and she has been competing for six
years at the international level.
"We share the same views and agree on (the need to) clarify and
improve the scientific background (criteria) we talked about".
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