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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...

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