World Boxing has apologised for publicly announcing Imane Khelif would be banned from its events unless she could prove she was biologically female.

World Boxing has apologized after Imane Khelif was named in their announcement on mandatory sex testing for all boxers in their competitions, saying the Paris Olympics gold medalist’s privacy should have been protected.

World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst has apologised after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was signed out in an announcement made by the governing body to make sex testing mandatory. The decision comes after Khelif’s gold medal at the Paris Olympics last year,