Boxing: Imane Khelif challenges World Boxing's femininity tests before the CAS

At the heart of a controversy over her gender during the Paris Games, the Algerian is contesting the ban she was given from participating in international competitions without first undergoing a chromosomal test, specifies the CAS, which has not yet set a hearing date.

In detail, Imane Khelif is requesting the annulment of the decision taken at the end of May by World Boxing which deprived her in June of the Eindhoven tournament - the first competition subject to the new regulations - and wants to be able to participate "without testing" in the World Championships in Liverpool, which begin Thursday and run until September 14.

This latest request has almost no chance of success since the CAS specifies that it refused to grant a suspensive effect to the appeal of the Algerian boxer, filed on August 5.

"The parties are currently exchanging written briefs and, with their agreement, a hearing will be scheduled," added the CAS, whose procedures are confidential and whose hearings are almost always held behind closed doors.

At the Paris Games, Khelif was the target of attacks and a disinformation campaign, as was Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, who portrayed her as a "man fighting women." The 26-year-old boxer won the -66 kg final.

His request will provide the first opportunity for a legal debate on the reinstatement in world sport - by World Boxing but also in swimming and athletics - of genetic tests intended to establish biological sex, in force at the Olympic Games between 1968 and 1996.

Using a PCR test, the aim is to condition access to the female category on the absence of the "SRY gene", located on the Y chromosome, an indicator of masculinity, a method praised for its simplicity by its promoters.

Such screening would exclude transgender athletes, as well as some of those who have always been considered female but have XY chromosomes, one of the forms of "differences of sex development" (DSD) or intersex.