The IOC President, Thomas Bach, emphasized that the recent gender controversy involving two female boxers competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics was instigated by a Russian fake news campaign. He clarified that the International Boxing Association (IBA) was responsible for intensifying the situation, claiming the athletes had been banned due to chromosome testing. Despite the IBA's accusations, Bach stated that the two boxers had successfully competed in previous international events, asserting that the issue was manufactured and lacked any genuine basis.
This [Paris Games gender controversy] is based on a fake news campaign coming from Russia. All the discussion surrounding it is not rooted in reality.
The dispute over the boxers would have been a non-issue were it not for the IBA, given that they had competed without problems at previous Olympics.
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