Paris Olympics 2024: 46 seconds of ‘bloody battle’
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Paris (Team Newsbuddy): The controversies in the Paris Olympics are not stopping. First there was a question about the water quality of the Seine river, then the athletes had to face food problems, but on Thursday a different controversy was seen. Italian boxer Angela Carini was defeated by a boxer considered ‘biological male’ in just 46 seconds in one of the most controversial bouts in Olympic history.
The fight between Italy’s Angela Carini and Algerian boxer Iman Khelife lasted only 46 seconds. Angela Carini left the match after this and threw her helmet and started crying inside the ring. When the match was canceled, Angela Carini was heard saying, “This is unjust.
25-year-old Angela Carini refused to shake hands with the Algerian boxer. After receiving two punches from Iman Kheleif, Angela Carini fell crying in the ring. Iman Kheleif was banned from a major boxing event before the Olympics.
In the women’s 66 kg weight category, the match between Italy’s Angela Carini and Algerian boxer Iman Kheleif was being called a match between a man and a woman. This is not the first time Iman Kheleif has been in controversy over her gender. Khalif was excluded from the World Championships last year after failing testosterone tests conducted to establish gender eligibility.
25-year-old Angela Carini refused to shake hands with the Algerian boxer. After receiving two punches from Iman Kheleif, Angela Carini fell crying in the ring. Iman Kheleif was banned from a major boxing event before the Olympics.
The Italian boxer was unable to stand after being hit on the nose and bleeding.
Iman Khelife and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting were disqualified from last year’s world championships but were deemed eligible to box in the women’s competition in Paris. Yu-Ting will decide on Friday in the 57kg. Both boxed in the women’s event at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. Lin was stripped of her bronze medal after she failed to undergo mandatory “biochemical” tests by the IBA.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters this week: “Everyone competing in the women’s category… is complying with the competition eligibility rules.” He added, “They are women in their passports and it is written there that they are women.”
