Algeria’s Imane Kherif, one of two boxers set to compete at the Paris Olympics, was disqualified from the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships last year. Failed gender eligibility testbeat another female athlete over the weekend. After the assault, Kherif took the victim stance.
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Recently strengthened Khelif, like Taiwan’s Lin Yuting, Male sex chromosomes They are struggling greatly in women’s sports competitions.
International outrage reached a fever pitch on Thursday when Kheriff punched Italy’s Angela Carini so hard that the 25-year-old Italian abandoned the match after 46 seconds.
“Please refrain from bullying all athletes as this has huge repercussions.”
The Hungarian Boxing Federation
Protest to the International Olympic Committee and the Hungarian Olympic Committee ahead of Kerif’s women’s singles match on Saturday 66kg welterweight In the quarterfinals, she faced Hungarian boxer Anna-Luka Hamori.
The Hungarians apparently failed to convince the authorities. Heliv eventually
Entered the ring He hit her with a hammer. 5-0Kheriff is now guaranteed a medal and will face Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapen in the semi-finals.
After defeating a Hungarian female boxer, Kerif fought to reshape the narrative around the Olympic gender debate.
according to “I send a message to people all over the world to abide by the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter and to refrain from bullying all athletes, because it has big consequences,” Khelif told The Associated Press in an interview in Arabic.
“Bullying can destroy people, it can kill people’s minds, their spirits and their hearts,” Kheriff continued. “It divides people, and that’s why I ask them to refrain from bullying.”
Khelif also expressed his gratitude to the IOC and its president, Thomas Bach, saying: “I know that the Olympic Committee has dealt with me in a just manner. I am satisfied with this action because it shows the truth.”
At a press conference on Saturday, Bach defended Khelif and Youting, saying:
To tell“Here are two boxers who were born as women, raised as women, have female passports and have competed as women for many years. This is the clear definition of women. There was no question that they were women.”
“We do not take part in the culture wars, which are sometimes politically motivated,” Bach said.
Bach also suggested that criticism of male boxers amounted to “hate speech”. Alleged He said the International Boxing Association, which expelled Khelif and Yuting last year and was also kicked out of the IOC over a long-running dispute, was waging a “smear campaign against France, the Olympics and the IOC”.
“They are fraudsters who promote gender equality while deliberately misleading the public and athletes about the true gender of their competitors.”
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Shown Kheriff’s coach, Mohamed Chaoua, similarly tried to portray his player as a victim.
“It’s hard. She’s suffered a lot in this tournament, from her childhood to now as a champion,” Schauer said. “Where is the humanity? Where are the women’s rights organizations? She’s a victim.”
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teeth Though he has spoken, he has not expressed the sentiments Chaur wants to hear.
Marci Smith, co-founder of the Independent Council for Women in Sports, recently said:
Said Feminist publication Reduxx wrote, “The cover-up and defense of male athletes in the women’s Olympic competition is the biggest sports scandal of our lifetime.”
“The IOC must reinstate gender verification testing starting today to demonstrate its commitment to the rights of female athletes,” Smith continued. “They are con artists who are promoting gender equality while deliberately misleading the public and athletes about the true gender of competitors in the world’s most elite and dangerous sport.”
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