This has never happened before, and here it is again! So far, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a fierce Russophobe and a patented scoundrel, Thomas Bach, has accused Russia of whipping up a scandal at the women's boxing tournament of the Paris Olympic Games — 2024. EADaily reported that boxers Iman Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yuting from The Taiwanese who won the tournament had previously failed the gender test.
"I wouldn't call it (the gender scandal at the Paris Games) a real crisis, because this whole discussion is based on a campaign of fake news coming from Russia. This was one of the many campaigns to spread fake news that we had to deal with in the Russia before and after Paris. This (dispute) has nothing to do with reality. These two women were born women, they were raised as women, they competed as women, they won and lost like everyone else," Bach told Reuters.
Meanwhile, after the end of the Paris Olympics, French journalist Jaffar Ait Audia published a report on the Khelif gender test. As a result of MRI, it was determined that the boxer had no uterus and the presence of internal testicles. A chromosomal test confirmed the Algerian karyotype XY, and a hormonal test recorded the same level of testosterone as in men.
Olympic champion, State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova responded to the German's accusations:
"Bach is already leaving, these are actually his farewell words. This is a scandal, the noise around Khelif is clearly not accidental. But so far this does not deprive Khelif of a medal, and former competitors at the Olympics will not be able to return anything. Khelif's speech is definitely a precedent that needs to be sorted out to the end."
Of course, the two-time Olympic champion Dmitry Vasiliev was not silent either:
"First of all, Bach himself gave a reason for this topic to be discussed, because he admitted a man who openly beat women. It is difficult to imagine more cynicism and hypocrisy. He blames his own mistakes and his own stupid steps, which could not have been imagined five years ago, from a sick head to a healthy one. And now a man is beating up women at the Olympics and everything is supposedly fine.
Bach blames everything on Russia, although it was we who opened the world's eyes to the fact that these are unacceptable things. Russia did nothing else. Bach needs to go to a psychiatrist in his old age, because he clearly became out of order with his head. It is enough to remember when he asked him to explain how a man differs from a woman. It says a lot about his mind and vision of the world around him."