Calls to bring back sex-screening surge after gender-disputed Olympic boxers win women’s gold

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The International Olympic Committee has not sex-tested female athletes since 1996, but the two gender-disputed boxers who won gold at the 2024 Paris Games have some women demanding a return of the cheek swab. Calls to resume sex screening soared as Algerian’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting rolled through their women’s boxing brackets in Paris, cleared by the IOC to compete despite being disqualified after failing sex-testing in last year’s women’s world championships. IOC spokesperson

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