As my late mother was wont to say, they’ve got that arse-end upwards. Allowing Lin and Khelif to fight women shows the immense harms “no sex testing” policies cause.
And further, the IOCs lack of sex testing led precisely and predictably to the exact outpouring of outrage Khelif and Lin are presently weathering. Outrage will erupt over and over until the system is fair, reasonable, transparent and common sense. Avoiding sex testing stops all the fairness, reasonableness, transparency, and common sense, and ensures outrages.
But the IOC doesn’t stand against sex testing, it merely leaves that to the individual sports’ governing bodies. Such testing is the norm in most sports, including boxing. The only reason boxing is in the limelight is that the IOC recently cut ties with the governing body that would normally be doing this testing, leaving it without such testing for the first time in recent Olympics.
As my late mother was wont to say, they’ve got that arse-end upwards. Allowing Lin and Khelif to fight women shows the immense harms “no sex testing” policies cause.
And further, the IOCs lack of sex testing led precisely and predictably to the exact outpouring of outrage Khelif and Lin are presently weathering. Outrage will erupt over and over until the system is fair, reasonable, transparent and common sense. Avoiding sex testing stops all the fairness, reasonableness, transparency, and common sense, and ensures outrages.
But the IOC doesn’t stand against sex testing, it merely leaves that to the individual sports’ governing bodies. Such testing is the norm in most sports, including boxing. The only reason boxing is in the limelight is that the IOC recently cut ties with the governing body that would normally be doing this testing, leaving it without such testing for the first time in recent Olympics.
Do your research, HRW.