IF they handed out Olympic medals out of common sense, Italian Angela Carini would have won gold in the boxing ring in Paris yesterday.
The 25-year-old welterweight’s opponent was Algerian Imane Khelif, who was disqualified from last year’s World Cup in New Delhi. Championship for not meeting the necessary gender eligibility criteria.
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In other words, Khelif failed the sex test – and that meant her punches were more like a man’s than a woman’s, which made her extremely dangerous to female fighters.
So it would have come as no surprise to boxers – amateur or professional – when the Naples fighter abandoned the fight after just 46 seconds, the first time she was hit hard in the face.
Carini said: “I didn’t want to fight anymore, it hurt too much.”
Her trainer added: “She felt pain in her nose.”
I’m sure elite fighters like Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will applaud Carini for coming out the way she did.
She exposed the IOC for the politically correct idiots that they are.
After winning the contest, Khelif said: “God willing, this was the first victory.
“God is wishing me the golden one.” Khelif later added: “Tough for a first fight.
Gender controversy at the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) provoked a huge controversy by releasing two women to boxing who had already failed a gender test.
Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan were disqualified at the Women’s World Championships in New Delhi, India in March 2023.
Lin Yu-ting was stripped of the bronze medal after failing a gender eligibility test.
Khelif was disqualified in New Delhi for failing a testosterone level test.
Authorities discovered that tests showed they had “XY chromosomes” – which indicates a person is biologically male.
Rare ‘intersex’ medical conditions, medically known as differences in sexual development (DDS), can also mean that apparently female individuals can have ‘male’ chromosomes, or vice versa.
The Russian-led International Boxing Association organized this event, but it is no longer recognized by the IOC.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams said: “These athletes have competed many times over many years, they didn’t arrive suddenly – they competed in Tokyo.
“The federation needs to define the rules to ensure that there is fairness, but at the same time there is the ability for everyone who wants to participate. That’s a difficult balance.
“Ultimately, the experts in each sport are the people working on it. If there is a big advantage, that’s clearly not acceptable, but that needs to be a decision made at that level.”
Both Khelif and Lin competed at the delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Lin is a two-time winner of the Asian Women’s Amateur Boxing Championship.
The IOC said all boxers in Paris “comply with competition eligibility and entry regulations.”
The controversy follows the famous case of Caster Semenya.
South African middle-distance runner Semenya has a condition that causes her body to naturally produce higher levels of testosterone than is normal for women.
She won gold in the 800m in London 2012 and Rio in 2016, but was unable to compete in Tokyo in 2021 after World Athletics introduced new rules independently of the IOC at the time.
“Inshallah [if Allah wills it]) for the second fight. I’m very prepared because it took eight years of preparation.
“These are my second Olympic Games after fifth place in Tokyo. ‘I need an Olympic medal here in Paris.
“Let’s see who will win the second fight to find out who the opponent will be.
“We will be ready and do everything to bring back a medal for Algeria. One, two, three, long live Algeria.”
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