Controversial boxer Imane Kherif has reached the Olympic final after another dominant victory over a female opponent in Paris.
Kherif has been surrounded by controversy since it was revealed that both the International Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization had said he was biologically male.
The IBA disqualified the boxer from the 2023 World Championships after IBA president Umar Kremlev said at the time that Kherif had “XY chromosomes.”
Less than a week after the Olympic controversy began, the WBO’s European vice-president said Kherif was one of several fighters in the women’s division who identified as male.
“Shame on those who celebrate this.”
“The issue was not with Kherif’s testosterone levels, which can now be adjusted, but rather the results of the sex test which clearly showed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” WBO’s Istvan Kovac said. Redux.
The five boxers tested by the WBO “were certainly male,” he added.
Kheriff said, Women’s 66kg Semifinals Tuesday on the way to Friday’s gold medal match.
Algerians celebrate their victory video While the truly surreal sounds of a raucous live audience responded with knees in the air and finger gun shots, online viewers were less than pleased.
“Shame on those who celebrate this. Shame on the Olympics. Boycott them.” Paul Cipla.
Another reader described the match as:shame“, while several other X users responded by saying the Olympics are “over.”
Out kick Alejandro Avila He said there was a clear physical difference between Kherif and his opponent, Janjaem Suwannapen of the Philippines, and noted that the Stade Roland Garros crowd cheered but that no mention of Kherif’s controversy was made on air.
Kheriff has played three matches so far at the Olympics and is yet to lose a round, including a first-round match against Italy’s Angela Carini, who withdrew from the match.
Carini was widely praised for overcoming adversity, but later Apologized She told Kherif that she respected the IOC’s decision to allow Algerian athletes to compete against women.
The Italian also said that if they were to meet again he would “embrace her.”
Kheriff will face China’s Yan Liu on Friday. gold medal.
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