Imane Khelif fires off punchy message after Olympic boss vows to 'ensure fairness' in women's category

Controversial gold medalist Imane Khelif fired off a terse message on Monday as the new Olympics chief called for protecting the female category to ensure fairness Khelif who faced questions about whether the fighter was eligible to compete in the women s category during the Paris Olympics fired off a quote commonly attributed to Winston Churchill after new International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry took her stance on protecting women CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COM Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts Khelif captioned a post on the boxer s Instagram Stories Coventry revealed Thursday that she had overwhelming patronage to make moves to protect the women s category in the Olympics amid transgender athlete controversies that have plagued girls and women s sports in the United States Britain and Australia We understand that there'll be differences depending on the sport but it was very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category first and foremost to ensure fairness Coventry stated But we need to do that with a scientific approach and the inclusion of the international federations who have already done a lot of work in this area FORMER US OLYMPIC COACH OPENS UP ON SUING USA FENCING BOARD AMID TRANS ATHLETE GUIDELINES DISAGREEMENTSThe new president added that there is unanimous endorsement for coming to an agreement about how to amend the approach and suggested the IOC may take inspiration from the World Athletics plan which restricts biological males from competing in women's sports if those males have gone through male puberty It was very clear from the membership the discussion around this has to be done with therapeutic and scientific research at the core so we are looking at the facts and the nuances and the inclusion of the international federations that have done so much of this work having a seat at table and sharing with us because every sport is different she disclosed But it was pretty much unanimously felt that the IOC should take a leading role in bringing everyone together to try and find a broad consensus However Coventry also revealed any changes likely wouldn't effect in retroactively changing the results of past competitions that featured athletes with gender-eligibility questions The Paris Olympics featured two boxers winning gold in the women's competition despite previously failing gender-eligibility tests for international competitions Khelif s medals would likely be safe even in the face of a healthcare test published in Wire Sports in June that reignited the gender conflict around the boxer Fox News Jackson Thompson contributed to this statement Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter