The bout between Imane Khelif and Angela Carini lasted less than a minute, but it has become one of the biggest stories of the Olympics.
It took only 46 seconds of a women’s round of 16 welterweight bout between Algerian Imane Khelif and Italian Angela Carini to become one of the most controversial stories of Paris 2024.
“It could have been the match of a lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well,” Carini told the BBC.Khelif, 25, has been boxing since she was a child in Algeria. She competed at the women’s world championships in Russia in 2019 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she was beaten 5-0 in a quarter-final by Ireland’s eventual gold medal winner Kellie Harrington in the lightweight division.
Khelif and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan, who are both competing in Paris, failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the International Boxing Association’s women’s world championships in New Delhi last year, leading to their disqualifications.Speaking last March to Russia’s Tass news agency, IBA president Umar Kremlev said Khelif and Yu‑ting were “posing” as women ahead of the 2023 world championships.
“According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition.”In a statement, the International Olympic Committee criticised the IBA’s previous disqualification decision, calling it “arbitrary”.“Towards the end of the IBA world championships in 2023, they were suddenly disqualified without any due process,” the IOC said.
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