After a fortnight of unverified claims and counter-claims the sport’s presence at the 2028 Olympics is in doubt
It has been quite the week for Chris Roberts, the former British army officer who leads the day-to-day running of the International Boxing Association. “Didn’t go the way I expected to,” says the IBA’s secretary general, ruefully.
When Roberts and his Russian boss, Umar Kremlev, president of the IBA, decided to hold a press conference in Paris on Monday, the plan had been to publish the gender test results of the boxers Imane Khelif, of Algeria, and Lin Yu-ting from Taiwan (competing as Chinese Taipei). The Olympic medal-winning performances of the two fighters have been the controversy of the Games.