'It's not a black and white issue', says IOC on boxing gender row

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"It's not a black and white issue," says IOC spokesman Mark Adams after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif's 46-second win at the Paris Olympics sparked a furious row about gender eligibility rules. Khelif advanced to the quarter-finals of the women's 66kg category after unloading two strong punches to the face of Italian Angela Carini, who had blood on her shorts and was unable to carry on because of a badly hurt nose.

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00:40We say there, and I think everyone would agree,

00:42you don't change the rules during a competition.

00:45No one should change the rules during a competition.

00:47Everyone needs to have certainty of the rules of competition.

00:52On the wider issue, there still is neither scientific

00:57or political consensus on this issue.

01:01It's not a black and white issue, and we would at the IOC

01:05be very interested to hear of such a solution,

01:09such a consensus on this.

01:11And we would be the first to act on this

01:13should a common understanding be reached.

01:16But as we say, that has yet to be the case across sport in general.

01:23On the injury, what I would say is, of course,

01:26we always don't like to see an injury to any athlete.

01:31And obviously, this injury, like all the others,

01:36we hope that she makes a good and full recovery.

01:41She's talked about it in the post-bout press conference,

01:45and we wish her all the best, obviously.

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