Raising issues in Pairs Olympics 2024 about hate speech
PAIRS-The “hate speech” that boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting received during the Paris Olympics, according to IOC President Thomas Bach, is “totally unacceptable.”
Are protections for athletes adequate?
At a press conference held halfway through the games, Bach said, “We will not participate in a politically motivated cultural war,” while simultaneously attempting to draw a line under days of intense international criticism on the gender of the female boxers. The head of the International Olympic Committee declared, “What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable.” Because both Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan were disqualified at the 2023 world championships, they have drawn a lot of attention and frequently incorrect comments. The boxers were withdrawn from the world’s 16 months ago in India by the Russian-led International Boxing Association, which the IOC has banned from the Olympics due to a long-running disagreement. The reason given was gender-based tests that are still undefined and untested. Bach connected the women’s boxing controversy to what he described as a larger, Russian-led campaign against the IOC and the Paris Olympics, in which just 15 Russian athletes are competing as neutrals devoid of any sense of national identification. During the armed invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been ostracized by the IOC and other international sports organizations. Bach added, “What we have seen from the Russian side, and especially from the (IBA), is that they started a defamation campaign against France, the games, and the IOC way before these Games.”
What is the Olympics committee’s response?
According to a statement posted on the committee’s Facebook page, the Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee officially complained to the IOC about the online harassment of Khelif, citing what they consider to be “a serious violation of sports ethics and the Olympic Charter by one of the participants in the boxing tournament” during the Paris Olympics. The fighter who reportedly made derogatory remarks about the Algerian was not identified in the statement, but it did contain a warning that the IOC has issued a final warning to delete every post that concerns our heroine Iman Khalif. Khelif and Lin, two-time world champions, both participated in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but came away empty-handed. According to Bach, “We have two boxers who were born as women, who were raised as women, who have a passport as women, and who have competed as women for many years.” Some people wish to define what it means to be a woman. Intense feelings were raised late on Friday when the IBA announced that it would give the Italian fighter who had quit on Khelif in the opening minute of their fight on Thursday $100,000, the award it had guaranteed for every Olympic gold medalist in Paris. According to Bach, “it seems that everyone in our world feels obligated to say everything to anything without really considering the sometimes very complex circumstances.” “You will not come to a proper decision if you organize a poll in the social media ‘Do you think this person is a woman or is not a woman?’”
What does this mean for future games?
According to france24, The only sport in the Paris Games that isn’t overseen by a specific international authority is boxing. Due to disagreements between Olympic officials and the IBA on issues of governance and integrity, as well as their financial reliance on the Russian state energy company Gazprom, the events are being managed by an IOC-appointed sports unit, much as they were in Tokyo three years prior. As per uksportsyahoo, All of this has resulted in boxing in Paris operating under regulations that have remained mostly unaltered since the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 a time when the governing bodies of track and field, swimming, and cycling have examined and revised their eligibility guidelines to take gender equality into account. “To come up with a scientific-based new definition of who is a woman, and how can somebody being born, raised, and competing and having a passport as a woman cannot be considered a woman,” Bach asked those who were critical of Olympic women’s boxing.
Call to action: Boycott Pairs olympics 2024
Here are some cases to boycott this event under hate speech. The 1951st anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination’s ratification and the 50th anniversary of the law’s enactment, which punishes “racist insult and defamation” and “incitement to discrimination, hatred or racial violence,” are being observed this year in France. However, the CNCDH noted that “stigmatizing discourse with racist and xenophobic overtones has not completely disappeared.” The Pairs olympics event is almost near to start in this situation, surroundings should be safe for fans. But it is not looking safe yet. So fans should boycott this olympics.
