IBA gender tests on female boxers were flawed and 'not legitimate', claim IOC

IOC spokesman, Mark Adams, believes boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting have been 'harassed' by social media.

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00:00It won't surprise you to know I'm going to repeat the line that those tests are not legitimate tests.

00:05So there was indeed a letter, yeah, I can confirm that, but the tests themselves,

00:12the process of the tests, the ad hoc nature of the tests are not legitimate and you'll also

00:19expect me to tell you that I'm not going to discuss the individual intimate details of athletes

00:24in public, which I think is pretty disgraceful for those who've leaked that material.

00:29Frankly, to be put in that position must be awful on top of all of the social media harassment that

00:37these athletes have had. As I say, we did receive a letter. As I've been through in

00:44chapter and verse yesterday and the day of present yesterday, me the day before and the

00:47day before that, the way that even the way that that material was shared is against legal, ethical

00:55and all other measures. You only have to look at Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, Sports Rights

01:04Alliance, who also will tell you that these are severe attacks on the rights of these women

01:11involved. So I'm not going to comment a letter was sent, the testing, the method of the testing,

01:20the idea of the testing, which happened kind of overnight.

01:23None of it is legitimate and therefore doesn't deserve any response, particularly not in detail.