Former US Olympic coach opens up on suing USA Fencing board amid trans athlete policy disagreements

Former US Olympic fencing team coach Andrey Geva opened up to Fox News Digital why he is suing USA Fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt after a controversial testimony at a May 7 congressional hearing.

EXCLUSIVE: Former U.S. Olympic fencing team head coach Andrey Geva has filed a lawsuit against USA Fencing Chair Damien Lehfeldt, alleging Lehfeldt made "false and misleading" statements to Congress in a May 7 congressional hearing on trans athletes.

Geva, a USA Fencing board member, filed the lawsuit alongside fellow member and former Egyptian Olympian Abdel Salem, against Lehfeldt and the other five at-large director members. The lawsuit seeks to have Lehfeldt removed as chair. 

Geva has elaborated on those alleged false comments he claims Lehfeldt made in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. 

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Members of the No. six world-ranked USA Women's Epee team, from left to right, Kelley Hurley, Courtney Hurley, Katharine Holmes, Katarzyne Trzopek and coach Andrey Geva, pose for a group photo during the team women's epee competition at the Pan-American Fencing Championships on June 24, 2016 at the Convention Center Vasco Nunez de Balboa in Panama City. (Devin Manky/Getty Images)

Geva pointed to a statement by Lehfeldt, when the chair said, "women more commonly exhibit other advantageous traits such as flexibility and agility. Ultimately, fencing is a sport of strategy and technique. Those elements will most frequently determine who prevails and, when it comes to strategy and technique, neither sex has any inherent advantage transgender status thus, doesn't appear to confer any inherent advantage over a cisgender fencer cisgender women have beaten."

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