International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach condemned the “hate speech” targeting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, saying that a wider, Russia-led “defamation campaign” against the IOC and the Paris Games was fueling the controversy.
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