A boxer deemed a 'biological male' today won against an Italian woman in one of the most controversial Olympic bouts ever. The fight between Italy's Angela Carini and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif took just 46 seconds.
Female Italian boxer Angela Carini says she stopped her Olympic bout against her 'biologically male' opponent to 'save my life'.
Today's fight in Paris is now set to become one of the most controversial in Olympic history and has thrown the Games into chaos amid a fierce backlash from the likes JK Rowling, Olympian Sharron Davies and former Prime Minister Liz Truss. With her Olympic dreams in tatters after just 46 seconds, the crestfallen Italian fighter Carini fell to her knees and wept
Ignoring the Algerian, the Italian fighter then plunged to her knees and burst into tears as she said she had never felt such strong blows in a contest before. Asked why she knelt at the end of the match, she said it was for her late father, who died in 2021, before adding: 'I am sorry not to have taken Italy on to the podium.'
The female Italian was left reeling from the cross by Algeria's Imane Khelif - who was previously banned from the world championships for being 'biologically male'Khelif clashed with Carini in this morning's Olympic welterweight boutCarini added: 'I entered the ring and I told myself I have to take out all of myself independently from the person I had in front of me.
'You all saw my nose that started bleeding. I didn't lose tonight, I just surrendered with maturity.' 'I am a mature woman, the ring is my life. I've always been very instinctive, but when I feel something is not going well, it's not a surrender but having the maturity to stop.'Be the first to commentBe one of the first to commentCommentsShould there be a separate category for transgender athletes?Comment nowCarini's coach in the mix zone after the fight said: 'I don't know if her nose is broken. I have to speak with the girl.
'We will be ready and we will do everything to bring back a medal for Algeria. One, two, three, viva Algeria.'Bosses at the IOC are now facing a furious backlash following the fight, with former Prime Minister Liz Truss blasting the clash. Posting a video of the fight today, the author added: 'Watch this , then explain why you're OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn't sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women.'
Khelif was thrown out of last year's world championships after failing testosterone tests carried out to establish gender qualification.Olympics officials at Paris 2024 have accepted her as a female and state so in her official games biography. Kremlev claimed that the tests 'proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.'
But Khelif, who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, only fell into controversy after failing the tests last year in New Delhi. Speaking in 2020, she said: 'My father is my hero. I am very attached to him, he taught me that in life you should never give up. And when I'm in the ring and the situation gets tough, I hear his example, I never give up.The fight comes after DNA tests, which are compulsory for boxers, revealed the presence of XY chromosomes, typical of the male sex, in Khelif's DNA 'When he was paralysed I was only two years old. I grew up on his legs, he never made me miss anything.
IOC bosses overseeing the Olympics in Paris said Khelif met the eligibility criteria to compete - despite concerns of the boxer's biological sex. Also given the green light to fight is Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, who was also thrown out of the world championships amid questions about their sex. Elsewhere, Nancy Hogshead – the American swimmer who won three golds at the 1984 Games, waded into the row, claiming that 'gender ideology will get women KILLED'.
'Because that's more or less what the difference is in strength and power between male and female boxers.'Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan will join Khelif in competing at the Paris Olympics this summer For example, a girl might be born with a long clitoris but a closed vagina due to a hormonal condition. DSD charities have also criticised this 'corrective 'approach as it usually driven by societal expectations rather than medical benefit for the patient.
He added: 'They are women in their passports and it's stated that this is the case, that they are female.' Semenya has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than normal for women. This controversial document states that athletes with 'sex variations', another term for DSDs, have 'no presumption of advantage' and that they should be allowed to compete in the category of their gender identity.
And boxing did as well, with the International Boxing Association requiring athletes to undergo 'gender assessment'.
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