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Olympic boxing gender controversy: IOC leaving questions unanswered has created a wildfire of speculation

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Algeria's Imane Khelif (in red) punches Italy's Angela Carini in the women's 66kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/Getty Images)

PARIS — The question of whether boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei should be allowed to compete at the Olympics is not nearly as cut and dried as many critics are howling.

It also isn’t as cut and dried as the International Olympic Committee is saying in defense.

What is undeniably known is that there is still so much unknown.