BBC Sport’s Ade Adedoyin spoke to IBA chief government Chris Roberts after Monday’s information convention.
Query: What have been the assessments you probably did in 2022?
Reply: “Checks, that are for gender testing, have been in 2022 in Istanbul. These outcomes have been performed within the laboratory. The outcomes that got here out of that recognized, in accordance with the principles, an ineligibility to compete.”
Q: They have been blood assessments?
A: “Sure, blood assessments.”
Q: However you stated these blood assessments have been inconclusive?
A: “Right. For each boxers.”
Q: What did the second blood assessments let you know?
A: “Precisely the identical. It gave us the identical data. With that data, it was then offered to our board of administrators to determine, primarily based on our eligibility standards, what constitutes male and what constitutes feminine.”
Q: So to make clear, the assessments you probably did in 2022 and 2023 have been precisely the identical?
A: “Sure, appropriate. They have been performed by laboratories.”
Q: What have been these assessments designed to point out? Your president stated they have been for testosterone?
A: “It was the chromosome factor. It was to determine that. Successfully gender testing.”
Q: What do you imply?
A: “So mainly what stage of chromosome marries up with XX XY. Primarily based on that standards. You’ve got seen that in technical competitors guidelines. So should you have a look at that you will see what which means.”
Q: Umar Kremlev stated you examined them for testosterone…
A: “No, the blood assessments have been performed. It was primarily based on the factors set towards… it was a gender check, blood check. I am not going to state [Kremlev] was unsuitable.”
Q: He stated elevated ranges of testosterone…
A: “Properly, there are elevated ranges of testosterone in that testing. It brings out a few various things. It identifies various things in that check.”
Q: The physician stated they have been ‘genetically male’. What does he imply?
A: “I do not know. I do not know what his level is on that. You’d need to ask him that. All I am saying right here is assessments have been carried out in Istanbul, assessments have been then carried out in India. Outcomes got here out. Ineligibility demonstrates towards the factors and due to this fact that is why the boxers have been faraway from our event.”
Q: We hoped for readability, can see you why confusion has been triggered?
A: “We are able to solely take from the assessments what they produce. I am unable to go into that element.”
Q: We’re nonetheless not precisely clear what the state of affairs is…
A: “I feel the state of affairs right here is… why do not you ask the boxers? We will not disclose this direct data. It could be value asking the boxers themselves.”
Q: Kremlev stated testosterone, you are saying XY chromosome. We aren’t additional ahead in understanding…
A: “OK.”
Q: Was at this time shambolic?
A: “In what sense? That you just did not get the data that was wanted? We are able to ship this data to you so you possibly can see it.”
Q: The labs, have been they Wada-accredited?
A: “Sure, accredited. With licence numbers. Right. The media have introduced all of this hype up. No person ever stated Imane Khelif was a person or the Chinese language Taipei boxer, not me.”
Q: However your physician did? Your physician stated they have been genetically male…
A: “What did the physician say? Did he? OK.”
