The influence of Russia in the Olympic boxing gender controversy

National Post [Canada] ^ | Aug. 2, 2024 | Allen Abel

[canuck_conservative]

It should be highlighted that the head of the International Boxing Association, which disqualified Khalif in 2023 after she had been allowed to box against women at the highest level – not always victoriously — for half a decade, is a man named Umar Kremlev who was awarded the Medal For Merit to the Fatherland by the Putin government “for a great contribution to the development of physical culture and sport and diligent work in Russia.”

On Thursday, the organization’s communications team put out this statement: “The IBA will never support any boxing bouts between the genders, as the organization puts the safety and well-being of our athletes first. We are protecting our women and their rights to compete in the ring against equal rivals, and we will defend and support them in all instances; their hopes and dreams must never be taken away by organizations unwilling to do the right thing under difficult circumstances.” By which the Russians meant the International Olympic Committee.

On Friday, RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, labelled the women’s boxing competition at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad “a traveling cabaret with ‘bearded women.’”

“If there is a closed sect of worshipers of ‘gender-fluid’ gods, it is the IOC,” RIA Novosti said. So there is a back-story here...

[canuck_conservative]

Putin gets his stooge in the IBF to allow these male fighters in women's boxing, just to mess up the Olympics ... pure petty spite, all because Russia isn't allowed to send a team

Then after they've created their chaos, the Russian tricksters blame Western culture and the IOC

Russian dirty tricks never stop

[jerod]

Remember the good old Olympics... When they needed to test female athletes from Russia and eastern block countries to ‘ensure’ that they weren’t men. Now they’re encouraging men to compete against women... It’s a mad, mad world we live in.

[PGR88]

Please read for comprehension

This “Putin Stooge” as you say - headed the organization that BANNED trannies in 2023 - only after international organizations at least agreed to “check” gender.

Your propaganda is very tiresome

[The Louiswu]

Seems a tad hypocritical not to let Russia into the Olympic Games.

[Leaning Right]

> This “Putin Stooge” as you say - headed the organization that BANNED trannies in 2023 <

That’s what I got out of the article. I’m no fan of Russia (or Ukraine, or NATO) but in this case it looks like the Russians got it right.

[wildcard_redneck]

You are really upset that the world outside the perverted west are not fans of sick, demented trannies. I suspect that you are an alphabet type person yourself. What are Canadian perverts into, snowman-on-caribou porn?

[suthener]

“Please read for comprehension”

Thanks. I kept reading it over and over trying to get what canuck_conservative said to make sense.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Queue the Ha Ha kid from The Simpsons.

[Bon of Babble]

Well, which is it?

The International Boxing Association president, Umar Kremlev, says DNA tests “’proved Khelif has XY chromosomes and was thus excluded.’”

The IOC claims: They cleared Khelif to compete, stating that she was “born female, registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, and held a female passport.”

[MrBambaLaMamba]

A man pretending to be a woman who wishes to box a real woman should be made to enter the ring wearing a ‘wife beater’ t-shirt, cut off denim shorts and sandals while riding a children's bicycle equipped with a large basket containing a case of stolen beer.

[JonPreston]

Canadian Crackpot

[higgmeister]

Do you have a reading impairment?   The Russian leading the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, disqualified the tranny Khalif twice in different years because he tested as XY and had testosterone levels of a male.

It's the International Olympic Committee (influenced by US) that has allowed the transgendered fraudsters to Box against women.   Putin gave the Russian a Medal For Merit for not allowing transgendered to corrupt Women's Sports, hats off and kudos to the Russians.

[Bigg Red]

Did you actually read your own excerpt above? The Russian you are vilifying is with the organization that is condemning having women fight these perverted men. It is the IOC who is responsible for enabling this violence against women and not the boxing association who refused to let these freaks compete.

[A strike]

you really have a hard one for Russia don’t you

[mac_truck]

Please read for comprehension

So dumb, it hurts. 😬

[BlackbirdSST]

You should hit the abuse button and plead with the mods to show you mercy and pull your comments, not the posting, just your comments. D.U.M. dumb!

[Biblebelter]

Putin Derangement Syndrome.

I don’t think there is a cure for that.

[kiryandil]

Canadian Crackpot

It's like watching Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

The trigger phrases are "The Russia" or "The Putin"...

[Who is John Galt?]

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The real issue is the IOC was concerned after the McLaren Report. Canadian academic Richard McLaren, who was called by the IOC as part of the Russian doping scandal, was called to investigate the AIBA.

It was found that AIBA was corrupted, and its primary sponsor was Russian state-backed energy giant Gazprom. They then removed bans on Russia and Belarus, leading to many nations boycotting the AIBA World Championships.

Umar Kremlev (Russia) has been AIBA president since 2020 and was re-elected unopposed in May 2022 after Dutch boxing federation president Boris van der Vorst was declared ineligible, which the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) ruled Van der Vorst was wrongly prevented from standing. AIBA delegates then said they refused the CAS order.

A rival organisation, World Boxing, was started to end the corruption with its state-owned influence.

Now we need this more after we found the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be broadcast on Obama-controlled Netflix in the United States, the tournament is sponsored by the Saudi Government through Aramco.