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PARIS — The International Olympic Committee has defended the right of two athletes to compete in women's boxing despite being judged last year to have failed gender eligibility tests at the world championships. Two-time world champion Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria are both competing at their second Olympics. IOC spokesman Mark Adams says they meet Olympic tournament eligibility rules. Adams says at the Olympics organizers' daily news conference in Paris: "They are women in their passports and it's stated that this is the case, that they are female."
