Imane Khelif's mother has made clear the Algerian boxer is female, following a summer of controversy around the 25-year-old. Khelif , who reached the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympic Games before winning gold in Paris , was at the centre of a storm in relation to an alleged failure of gender tests at an International Boxing Association-run event. The IBA administered previous Olympic boxing tournaments, but had been stripped of that honour in 2019 amid "issues in the areas of finance,