International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has strongly defended the participation of boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting in the Paris 2024 Olympics amidst a heated gender debate. Bach's comments come as the IOC faces scrutiny over the eligibility of these athletes, who have been at the centre of a contentious discussion about gender identity and sports.
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00:00Let's be very clear here, we are talking about women's boxing and we have two
00:28boxers who were born as women, who have been raised as women, who have a passport
00:39as a woman and who have competed for many years as women. And this is the
00:49clear definition of a woman. There was never any doubt about them being a woman.
00:58What we see now is that some want to own the definition of who is a woman.
01:08And there I can only invite them to come up with a scientific-based new definition of who is a woman
01:23and how can somebody being born, raised, competed and having a passport as a woman
01:29cannot be considered a woman. If they are coming up with something, we are ready to listen,
01:38we are ready to look into it, but we will not take part in a politically motivated,
01:50sometimes politically motivated, cultural war. And allow me to say that what is going on in
02:00this context in the social media, with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse,
02:09and fuelled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable.
02:20What is the definition of a woman?
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