Skye Nicolson, who fought for Australia at Tokyo 2020 before turning professional, urged people to “be a lion, not a sheep” and consider the facts before joining the global pile-on.
has labelled the post-fight tears of Italian fighter Angela Carini a “publicity stunt”, leaping to the defence of the Algerian and Taiwanese boxers who have found themselves at the centre of a global storm at the Olympics.before turning professional. In the lead-up to those Games, she lost twice to Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and says she has also fought against and sparred with Algerian Imane Khelif in the past.
, cried “it’s not right” in Italian, refused to shake hands with her opponent afterwards, and then told media she had feared for her safety. “They have grown up as girls, as females, as women. They have competed as women the whole time. These are not naturally born men who have decided to call themselves women or identify as women to fight women in the Olympics.
“I feel like the thing that happened with the Italian girl was a publicity stunt more than anything,” Nicolson said.
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