WATCH: Sharron Davies calls for Imane Khelif to be stripped of Olympic medals

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Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has called for Imane Khelif to be stripped of Olympic medals following the leak of a medical report declaring the boxer biologically male.The former swimmer claimed Khelif's "whole team, their coaching team knew, and nobody cared" about potential damage inflicted on female competitors.A medical report from Khelif's 2023 World Championships has been published for the first time, with the document appearing to indicate that the boxer is "biologically male."The report was released just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif would need to undergo sex screening for future female category appearances.Speaking to GB News, Davies said: "So we had two gold medals that were won by male individuals who have a male DSD, a difference of sexual development that only affects males."We have this particular problem quite a lot. I mean, it's what Caster Semenya has."READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00with my children and they were they were so shocked they were almost crying. It was clearly

00:05brutality. It looked like punishment. The truth is out. And you know what? People like you were

00:10right all along. You know what, Martin? The truth was always there, right? I mean, we all knew that

00:16this person had two positive sex screening tests. And the people that are to blame through all of

00:23this are the IOC. I mean, if you look back to those press conferences during that Olympic Games

00:28last summer, the things that Thomas Back was saying are just are never, never excusable.

00:34They allowed male on female violence for the whole world to watch. A simple sex screening test,

00:41which was which was actually in place until the end of the 1998 when they polled the female athletes,

00:4680 percent said, yes, please carry on with the female sex screening. And they stopped it anyway.

00:51And the fact that they turned around and said that those tests that they had been informed about

00:56a year prior were not legitimate when they were performed and accredited by the US College of

01:02Pathology and certified by the International Organization of Standardization, right? That's

01:08who did these tests. So it wasn't some quack organization. So all of that that you saw at the

01:13Olympic Games in Paris last year was an utter lie. You only had to see the pictures of Khalifa upon the

01:18shoulders of their coaches afterwards to know that this was not somebody that they were treating like a

01:22female because they wouldn't have done that. So everybody knew. And yet, you know, we were

01:27being lambasted. All of the people that were saying that this is not fair. And most importantly,

01:31it's incredibly dangerous. And that's what above and beyond everything was really criminal negligence,

01:37I think, as far as the IOC were concerned. So the IOC has a huge credibility issue.

01:44Its reputation lies in tatters. But Sharon Davis, is it time to strip a main caliph of those medals and

01:50get them back and give them to the silver medalist, the woman who was beaten up by a bloke?

01:55Well, and the Taiwanese as well. Yes. So we had two gold medals that were won by male individuals that

02:01have a male DSD, a difference of sexual development that only affects males. And we have this particular

02:06problem quite a lot. I mean, it's what Casa Semenya has. Casa Semenya is biologically male, has known that

02:12biologically male for an extremely long time because all of these individuals would have had male levels of

02:16testosterone and gone through male puberty. So, you know, when people say, well, do I have sympathy?

02:21No, I don't. Because Khalifa knew that they were biologically male. They knew they were cheating.

02:26They knew they had an unfair advantage. Their whole team, their coaching team knew. And nobody cared.

02:31They didn't care what damage they might have inflicted on a female. So I have absolutely no sympathy.

02:36Yes, I'd love to see those medals stripped. The difficulty is, and yes, of course, you can give it to the silver

02:41medalist. But there was, you know, in boxing, as you know, there's bouts. So, you know, the individual

02:46athletes, and we remember the Italian, you know, who was down on her knees after 45 seconds. And that

02:51woman who would not shake the hand of Khalifa was made to officially apologize. So remember that as

02:57well, you know, I mean, it really was shambolic.

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