Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Well, it’s only Monday and we already have the least surprising news you’ll hear all week: Now that the Olympics are over, it turns out that, despite her protestations, Algerian women’s boxer Imane Khelif does have male chromosomes and her coaches knew it.
In an interview published Friday with French outlet Le Point, Georges Cazorla, a French-based coach who helped create a regimen for Khelif’s training, all but confirmed that she had tested positive for a rare intersex condition called Disorders of Sexual Difference — a disorder that can give a female boxer a biological advantage and potentially raise issues of safety in the ring.
While the article was published Friday, it only began to really hit in the English language press Sunday U.S. time.
🚨BREAKING: Dr. Georges Cazorla, who played a crucial role in developing a rigorous training program to prepare Khelif for …
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