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I appreciate that the issues when it came to protecting the privacy of the two boxers. However, whatever the issues with the IBA, the IOC were still in possession of findings (from accredited lab facilities) which suggested that competitors with me biological advantages were included in the female category. The IOC do not appear to have rejected these findings concentrating instead on the circumstances if the tests), but neither did they act upon them. Even to verify theit accurai or establish to a clearer picture. This seems to me to be a really significant governance failure from the IOC and one which had profound effect not only in the two boxers but also on the integrity, safety and fairness of the female category. The other athletes also lost out and there is a lot of, to me quite understandable, anger around about that.

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