Algerian Imane Khelif won a match against Italy’s Angela Carini, after Carini quit 46 seconds into the match.
Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. has been one of several voices on social media calling a female Algerian boxer a man following an Olympic boxing match Thursday in the Paris games.
Khelif won a match against Italy’s Angela Carini, after Carini quit 46 seconds into the match. Carini stopped the fight after only a few punches were exchanged,She should have NEVER been put in a position where she had to box against a man.also weighed in, saying that “this type of heartbreak for female athletes—this unfairness, this risk of injury—is exactly what the Biden-Harris attacks on Title IX would cause across American high schools, colleges, and universities.
The IBA said the specifics of the tests were confidential, but IBA president Umar Kremlev alleged to Russian news agency TASS last year Khelif had XY chromosomes—a pair of chromosomes typically possessed by men,Khelif appealed and called her disqualification last year a “big conspiracy.” Khelif also competed in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics as a female.
In a statement, the IOC said that “two athletes were the victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA.”
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