3 d. ago France’s female boxers are banned from world championships due to genetic sex test delay

French federation calls exclusion ‘a profound injustice’World Boxing insists it warned all competitors of policyFrench female boxers have been barred from competing at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool after failing to meet a deadline for a genetic sex test that the French boxing federation (FFBoxe) said was incompatible with French law.World Boxing, which issued a list of competitors for Thursday’s opening rounds with no French entrants included, said it would not comment on individual cases but added it had warned all federations of the policy. Continue reading...

Sport

3 d. ago World Boxing accused of gender test ‘betrayal’ by French federation

France’s women were excluded from the World Championships in Liverpool after eligibility testing could not be performed under national law.

Politics

3 d. ago French female boxers barred from World Championships over sex testing issue

The genetic sex test imposed by World Boxing is incompatible with French law, says the French Boxing Federation

Sport

1 week ago Lefties like Shelton and Draper could flip the script at this year’s US Open

Rafael Nadal aside, there has been a paucity of male southpaw champions in recent decades. But that could change at Flushing Meadows this yearDuring the peak years of the Big Three, from 2008-2020, the only relevant issue to be discussed when discussing a grand slam draw was which of the trio was scheduled to meet before the final. And what this ultimately meant was that semi-finals often turned out be better than the finals (see: the 2010 and 2011 US Open semi-finals between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, or the 2013 and 2021 French Open semis between Rafael Nadal and Djokovic).Tennis hadn’t had that kind of impenetrable triangle of stars since the Jimmy Connors-Björn Borg-John McEnroe troika’s very brief hold on the sport in the late 1970s and very early 1980s. What makes that long-ago epoch stand out even further is the preponderance of left-handed players. Consider – from 1974 through 1984, a southpaw triumphed in every one of those 11 years at the US Open; Connors in 1974, 1...

Events

2 w. ago Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. will go to trial for allegations of cartel ties, judge says

A Mexican judge says Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. will go on trial for accusations of having cartel ties but can await that trial outside of detention

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4 w. ago David Haye accused of failing to pay almost £600,000 as he prepares to fight taxman

Former boxing world champion David Haye has been accused of failing to pay almost £600,000 in debts as HMRC won a hearing to probe his Hayemaker Boxing Ltd firm

Economics