The 2024 Olympiad might be in the history books, but the controversy surrounding males competing in women’s sports is far from over.
Dysfunction in women’s boxing thrust the debate about female athlete safety and fair competition into center ring for the entire Olympic games. Despite being disqualified by the International Boxing Association to compete as women fighters, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting left Paris with gold medals in women’s boxing around their necks and cast a long shadow over the International Olympic Committee.
Now we learn that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is forcing a new gender scandal on its upcoming games in Paris by qualifying a 50-year-old male sprinter from Italy, who has identified as Valentina Petrillo since 2019, to compete
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