World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst has apologised to Imane Khelif after she was named in a policy announcement about mandatory sex testing. The new gender verification policy sparked backlash for violating athlete privacy.

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.

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