The governing body for boxing apologized to the Algerian gold medalist after announcing a new gender eligibility policy.

World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst has apologised after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was signed out in an announcement made by the governing body to make sex testing mandatory. The decision comes after Khelif’s gold medal at the Paris Olympics last year,

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is facing calls to be stripped of her Paris Olympic gold medal following the leak of a medical report suggesting she is biologically male.