Kellieve's gender controversy is back in the air, and how likely is it that her Paris Olympic gold medal will be lost

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif (Imane Khelif) has been caught up in a gender controversy storm again, and the American media has leaked a gender test report for 2023, claiming that she has a male XY chromosome, which has plunged the Paris Olympic women's 66kg boxing gold medalist into a gender controversy storm again.

Algerian fighter Imane Khelif is back in the middle of a gender controversy

If Kelleaf does lose her gold medal due to gender testing, it will be a major change to the medal table, although it is unlikely that this will happen as it stands.

In recent Summer Olympics, the medal table has become a wrestling ground for the two major sports powers of China and the United States, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China took advantage of the home stadium and topped the medal table for the first time with 48 gold medals, far behind the United States, which won 36 gold medals. However, in the following editions, the United States regained its dominance in the sports world, and until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics returned to Asia, China closely followed the United States in the number of gold medals, ranking second with 38 golds, only one less gold medal than the United States, which topped the list with 39 golds.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, China and the United States fought "from head to end" in the medal table, until the last event of the last match day, the women's basketball final, when China led the 39 gold medals of the United States with 40 gold. The U.S. women's basketball team faced the host France in the final, lost its former hegemony, and won 67-66 after several hardships, winning the gold medal by only one point, winning the crucial 40th gold medal for the United States.

Experts analyze Kellieve's chances of being stripped of her Olympic gold medal. Therefore, if Kellieve's gold medal is stripped and silver medalist Yang Liu wins a replacement gold medal, China will be able to win the 41st gold medal in the Paris Olympics, surpassing the United States to become the top medalist, and it will also be the first time that it has achieved this achievement in the so-called "overseas Olympics". However, according to the judgment of overseas legal experts, it is believed that the probability of such a situation is not high.

China and the United States won 40 gold medals in the Paris Olympics.

Doriane Coleman, a professor at Duke University School of Law, replied to Newsweek's inquiry, "The IOC will not overturn medals won by athletes who qualify for boxing at the Paris Olympics." Unlike the rules set by the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the current World Boxing, the rules of the Paris Olympics do not require participants to be female. Professor Doriane Coleman is a legal authority on gender and women's movements, so her statement was quite indicative.