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The participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in the female boxing event caused controversy as they had been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The disqualifications came as consequence of the IBA stating that they failed to meet ...
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.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif won the gold medal in the 66kg women’s boxing finals, capping a whirlwind Olympics that found her in the middle of global controversy over her gender. She defeated China ...
The boxing events in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics were managed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Paris 2024 Boxing Unit. [37] The IBA had been suspended by the IOC in 2019 due to governance issues under prior leadership; since then, Olympic boxing has been overseen by an IOC task force.
They are both women’s boxing veterans, including at the Olympics, and do not win all of their matches. Khelif has fought other Italian opponents in the past. So why is this suddenly an issue?
Both had competed at the Olympic boxing tournament in 2020 with no incident (Khelif lost to Kellie Harrington in the quarter-finals, and Lin lost to Nesthy Petecio in the round of 16). [318] [319] [320] They both competed in the Women's World Championship in 2022, reaching the final.
Olympic boxing controversy sparks fierce debate over inclusivity in women's sports ... 2024 at 10:49 AM. Taipei's Lin Yu Ting, left, shakes hands with Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova as she looks ...
Instead, for the fourth consecutive day, the IOC’s briefing was dominated by questions about women’s boxing, gender tests, controversy, culture wars, a battle with the International Boxing ...