Sir Keir Starmer has been dragged into the Olympics gender saga after it was revealed the official behind the boxing row was the Prime Minister's best-man.
Mark Adams, who serves as spokesman for the International Olympic Committee, knew the Prime Minister since the two men were at school together.
Adams came under fire yesterday after warning against a "witch hunt" given Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting both previously failed gender eligibility tests.
Khelif defeated Angela Carini after less than a minute in the ring, with the Italian boxer being forced to abandon the clash over a suspected broken nose.
Adams said: "Testosterone is not a perfect test. Many women can have testosterone which is in what would be called ‘male levels’ and still be women, and still compete as a woman.
“So this panacea, this idea that you do one test for testosterone, that’s not the case I’m afraid. But each sport needs to deal with its issues, they know their sports and their disciplines the best and they need to target and tailor I should say the testing and so on.
“But I hope we’re all agreed we’re not calling for people to go back to the bad old days of sex testing, which was a terrible thing to do and I’m sure we all agree that’s not the way forward in this situation.”
Adams, who was one of four best men at the Prime Minister's wedding in 2007, previously described Starmer as his "old mate" and congratulated him on his selection as Labour's candidate in Holborn & St Pancras in 2015.
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