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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 ...
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 ...
PARIS — An Olympic boxing gold medal hanging around her neck, Algeria’s Imane Khelif directly addressed the controversy over her gender that had enveloped her during the Paris Games, made her ...
"The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport," said Mark Adams, chief spokesperson for the IOC, at a news ...
At the tournament, she became the first Algerian female boxer to reach the final after defeating Chelsey Heijnen. [28] She was then defeated by Amy Broadhurst in the final and finished runner-up. [29] [30] Later that year, Khelif saw further success, winning gold medals at the Mediterranean Games and the African Amateur Boxing Championships ...
Imane Khelif of Algeria, one of the two female boxers at the center of an Olympic gender controversy, pleaded with the public to “avoid bullying all athletes." Boxer embroiled in Olympics gender ...
The Olympics‘ gender eligibility controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is still swirling days after Khelif’s victory over Italy’s Angela Carini in a bout that lasted less than ...
The second of the two female boxers whose gender identities have recently been scrutinized won her first fight at the Paris Olympics on Friday. ... The Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee ...