Olympic Italian boxer Angela Carini, who lost a match to a controversial Algerian boxer after failing a male gender test, made a spectacular comeback last weekend to win her eighth Italian women's title.
Carini: “Tonight was revenge” declared According to Fox News, he spoke proudly on Sunday after winning the title.
Carini is an Olympic boxer who famously lost his match to Algerian opponent Imane Kherif in just 46 seconds at this year's 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Italian fighter withdrew from the ring after receiving several very powerful blows to the head. After the match, she said that she had never been hit so hard by an opponent in her entire boxing career.
“I went into the ring to fight,” Carini said after the Olympic match. “I didn't give up, but that one punch hurt too much. So I said, 'Enough is enough.'”
Kerif quickly became controversial after being allowed to compete as a woman at this year's International Olympic Games in Paris. prohibited In 2023, he received a warning from the International Boxing Association (IBA) after a man tested positive for XY chromosomes.
Olympic boxing trainer Rafa Lozano even pointed out that Herif was prohibited from boxing with women in training because he considered them too dangerous to compete in the ring.
After the Olympics, the controversy over Kerif's true gender continued when another report emerged that Kerif was more male than female and that her inner makeup was male rather than female. The report added that Kerif has internal testes, a “micropenis” and XY chromosomes.
Kherif's biological condition, reportedly compiled by the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Ramin Debagin Hospital in Algiers, Algeria, suggests that Kherif is a man and should be barred from entering women's stadiums. It became clear that the IBA's ruling that there was a case may have been correct. boxing.
The report claims that Kerif suffers from 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a genital disease found only in men.
Despite the initial shock and pain after the Olympics, Carini tried to apologize to Kerif.
“All this controversy makes me sad,” Carini said of the negative attention Kerif is receiving. “I also feel sorry for her opponent. If the IOC says she can fight, I respect that decision.”
“That wasn't what I meant,” Carini insisted. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics were wasted.”
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