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England Boxer, 18, Barred From World Championships After Team Forgot His Sex Test
Essex teenager George Francis was told just hours before the Under-19 World Championships draw in Montenegro that he could not fight because England Boxing had failed to arrange his mandatory sex verification test. The 18-year-old, a multiple national junior champion, says he was left broken by what the governing body called an administrative oversight. World Boxing introduced genetic sex testing after the Paris Olympics row.
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