JuristaFeminista

Edited by Iusport 15/08/24

At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, equality and inclusion were celebrated with great fanfare, but behind the recognition of the apparent commitment to equity, parity, diversity and fair play, the reality is that the IOC encourages foul play against women. Its extreme leniency towards diverse men, to whom it dedicated the entirety of the misogynistic and repressive 2024 Guidelines, in contrast to its disproportionate severity and dismissiveness towards women, whom it treats with disregard for their rights and dignity, underscores the IOC’s violation of its own rules. 

The most glaring case of misogyny, injustice and arbitrariness on the part of the IOC was that of Angela Carini, Anna Luca Hamori, Sitora Turdibekova, Svetlana Kamenova, Janjaem Suwannapheng, Esra Yildiz, Liu Yang and Julia Szeremeta, the eight boxers knocked down by the two men who participated in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories and illegitimately won the gold medals, despite the fact that Khelif and Lin had been disqualified from the IBA as it had been proven that they were not women, but men with DSD.

But no less serious are the cases of misogyny and arbitrariness that occurred with Manizha Talash and Vinesh Phogat, disqualified from their respective events, for having worn a cape with an innocent message in defense of Afghan women; and for the other having gone one hundred ridiculous grams over the maximum weight allowed.

In this article we discuss how the IOC adopts a double standard that is always detrimental to women’s rights.

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