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Boxing is suddenly in the middle of a scandal at the Paris ... Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting celebrates after defeating Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva in their women's 57 kg quarterfinal boxing match at the ...
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 was disqualified hours before her gold-medal bout at the women’s World Championships in New Delhi last year after she failed to meet the International Boxing Association ...
Khelif defeated China's Liu Yang by unanimous decision to win the women's 66kg division. Imane Khelif, boxer engulfed in Olympics gender controversy, declares 'I am a woman like any other woman ...
Two women's boxers who had been disqualified from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championships organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA) for failing sex verification tests – Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei – were selected for the Olympics. [317]
In the women's 4 × 400-meter relay, injured Puerto Rican runner Madeline de Jesus enlisted her identical twin sister, Margaret, as an imposter for a qualifying heat. Margaret ran the second leg of the qualifier, and the team advanced but when the chief coach of the Puerto Rican team learned of the ruse, he pulled his team out of the final.
The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro. [1] However, boxing at the games was overshadowed with controversy after there were doubts raised that results in certain bouts had been manipulated. These concerns were upheld in a report published in 2021.
Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif will fight for gold in women's Olympic boxing Friday. But the 25-year-old boxer's time in Paris has become the latest focus of a global debate about gender and ...