A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Saturday.

This has never happened before, and here it is again! So far, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a fierce Russophobe and a patented scoundrel, Thomas Bach, has accused Russia of whipping up a scandal at the women's boxing tournament of the Paris Olympic Games — 2024.

A gender dispute involving two women boxers at the 2024 Paris Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, IOC president Thomas Bach said.

A gender row involving two female boxers at the 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign, Olympic officials said.