Just a few seconds, then the decision to abandon. Angela Carini chose not to face the match against the hyper-sexual Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. After the judges validated her decision with the official verdict, the Italian boxer knelt on the ring and cried.
“I didn’t agree with the choice in 2021, I don’t agree today, I thank Angela Carini for how she fought even though we couldn’t see her, we only saw glimpses…”. “She withdrew,” journalists pointed out to Premier Giorgia Meloni at Casa Italia, and she added: “I’m even more sorry, I was moved yesterday when she wrote ‘I will fight‘ because dedication, mindset, and character certainly matter in these things. But then it also matters to be able to compete on equal terms. And from my point of view, it wasn’t a fair competition.”
The eve of the encounter. Don’t step into that ring. The door that many would not want to open, perhaps even the IOC, is a boxing match between Italian Angela Carini and Algerian Imane Khelif. And even before that, a verbal match between those attacking the Olympics for the presence of Imane, excluded from the World Championships because her DNA has a male chromosome, those who express concern and those who defend the decision. The anticipated match of the welterweights, and Italian sports holds its breath.
Agency ANSAParis, Imane Khelif because the boxer is not a transgender woman but an intersex athlete – Olympics News 2024 – Ansa.it
Gaynet: ‘It would be a case of Variations in Sex Characteristics’. (ANSA)
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