A Hungarian sports official, Istvan Kovacs, has claimed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not female. The European vice president of the World Boxing Organisation said he alerted the IOC about alleged male participation in women’s boxing in 2022, but no action was taken.

Thursday’s Olympic bout between Imane Khelif and Angela Carini quickly turned ugly off the ring and blowback permeated well into Friday, when the IOC was forced to address a barrage of questions regarding its handling of gender issues in boxing.  

In an exclusive interview with Inside The Games, Dr Gabriele Martelli, President of the IBA/EUBC Coaches Committee and Secretary General and Head Coach of the Malta Boxing Federation, one of the most authoritative voices in the field, gave his opinion on the case of Imane Kelif, the athlete with high testosterone levels taking part in Paris 2024.

As the polemics on the 2 boxers with high levels of testosterone competing at the Paris 2024 Women's Boxing Championships keep rising, the insidethegames.biz team asked for comments from both international governing bodies of Boxing: IBA and World Boxing. 

In a post on X, Riley Gaines has accused Olympic leaders of "glorifying male violence against women", talking about the controversies with Algeria's Imane Khelif in boxing women.

A heavyweight boxing match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has sparked heated controversy in Italy. After Italy's Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine lost to Uzbekistan's Lazizbek Mullojonov, the president of the Italian Boxing Federation (IBF), Flavio D'Ambrosi, expressed widespread outrage and lashed out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the refereeing system.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has backed two boxers competing in the women's competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games despite the duo failing gender eligibility tests in 2023.

Nigerian Cynthia Temitayo Ogunsemilore has been suspended from the Paris Olympics for violating an anti-doping rule, the International Testing Agency said Saturday. The 22-year-old African Games lightweight champion was due to compete Monday as the fourth-seeded boxer in the women's 60kg class.

Boxing made its debut at the modern Olympics in 1904 and has been contested at every Summer Games since, apart from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as Swedish law banned the sport at the time.

The British boxer was forced out of the sport by a degenerative disc injury when she was just 17. She was a star destined to turn professional and compete at the Olympics.  She now has the chance to prove it.

After leaving boxing for failing to qualify for Rio 2016, promising American boxer Jajaira González secured a spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics after a remarkable comeback story. 

After two days of celebrations in Paris, the Olympic Torch Relay set off for the Aisne. From Château-Thierry to Saint-Quentin, more than 110 torchbearers took turns carrying the Torch, highlighting the region's remarkable and well-preserved heritage and nature.

Following the official approval, the Secretary General of the Asian Boxing Confederation, Mr. Ali Salameh, announced that Ukraine will be able to compete in the upcoming ASBC Asian Boxing Championships in the United Arab Emirates, starting on August 27.

A gym in the Philippines stands at the forefront of producing Olympic boxing talents. Despite poverty, families gear up with torn shoes and frayed head guards, hoping to be the next success story from this talent factory.

Unbeaten American Shakur Stevenson retained his World Boxing Council lightweight world title with a methodical unanimous decision victory over Armenian-born German challenger Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday in Newark, New Jersey.