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Imane Khelif, boxer engulfed in Olympics gender controversy, declares 'I am a woman like any other woman' after winning gold Dan Wetzel August 9, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Algeria's Imane Khelif reacts after defeating Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng in their women's 66 kg semifinal boxing match at the Olympics on Aug. 6, 2024, in Paris. (Ariana Cubillos / AP)
PARIS — Lin Yu-ting, one of two women boxers embroiled in a gender controversy at the Summer Olympics, won her quarterfinal bout in the 57kg division and is guaranteed a medal.
The women's 75 kg (middleweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place between 31 July and 10 August 2024. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte , with the medal rounds (semifinals and finals) staged at Stade Roland Garros .
The participation of Lin and Khelif in Olympic women’s boxing has sparked global outrage in recent days after reports resurfaced that the pair failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the ...
The women's 800 meters race caused controversy after several women reportedly collapsed at the finish line. As a result, races longer than 200 meters were banned for women until the 1960 Olympics. As a result, races longer than 200 meters were banned for women until the 1960 Olympics.
On 9 August 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Yang Liu of China in the final to win an Olympic gold medal. [37] [38] Khelif therefore became Algeria's first female gold medalist in boxing, as well as the country's first boxer of any gender to win a medal since Mohamed Allalou in 2000 [39] and the first to win a gold medal since Hocine Soltani in 1996.
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 ...