The gender tests conducted by the International Boxing Association (IBA) on two female fighters at last year's world championships that led to their disqualification were illegitimate and lacked credibility, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday (August 4).
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00:00The tests themselves, the process of the tests, the ad hoc nature of the tests are not legitimate
00:08and you'll also expect me to tell you that I'm not going to discuss the individual intimate
00:13details of athletes in public, which I think is pretty disgraceful for those who have leaked
00:19that material.
00:20Frankly, to be put in that position must be awful, on top of all of the social media harassment
00:27that these athletes have had.
00:31The testing, the method of the testing, the idea of the testing, which happened kind of
00:36overnight, none of it is legitimate and therefore doesn't deserve any response, particularly
00:42not in detail.
00:43But the very fact that the decision to do the testing was taken on the spot there, under
00:51what purpose, under what the test was for, I don't know.
00:54As I say, we managed to do away with sex testing in the last century, so I'm not quite sure
01:02what the foundation for the testing was.