Khelif has not stepped back into the ring since winning Olympic gold, having skipped a planned return at the Eindhoven Box Cup shortly after mandatory sex testing was introduced.

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting both won gold medals at the 2024 Olympic Games but were at the centre of a gender-eligibility dispute; Khelif has not registered to compete at the World Championships in L

The governing body for Olympic-style boxing will require sex testing for all fighters wishing to compete in the women’s division at its world championships next month.

Imane Khelif, the Algerian Olympic boxing champion who captured global attention at Paris 2024, has just dropped jaws with her latest transformation, just as she faces mounting pressure over a looming sex-testing showdown.