Saying "Until he undergoes genetic screening" is just a formality, they know what the results will be because they already have the results from a previous test. He's a man.

The organisation confirmed that the decision was taken in response to “the particular circumstances around some boxers”: namely, Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, both of whom had been banned by the International Boxing Association after failing sex eligibility tests, but who were permitted to fight in Paris last year after the International Olympic Committee decided that womanhood could be determined by passport status rather than biology.

World Boxing, provisionally approved to run the next Olympic event, confirmed it had informed Khelif and the Algerian federation of the shift in policy. “Imane Khelif may not compete in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or in any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes genetic screening in accordance with World Boxing’s rules and testing procedures,” it said.

It was striking how scrupulously the statement avoided referring to Khelif – reported by the IBA as recording tests that showed XY chromosomes, the male pattern – as “she” or “her” at any stage. Khelif has vigorously contested the IBA’s findings, declaring in a recent interview: “I see myself as a girl just like any other girl. I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one.”