{"id":2404,"date":"2024-08-02T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2024-08-02T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:29:34","slug":"what-happened-with-imane-khelif-and-angela-carini-olympic-boxing-match-sparks-gender-eligibility-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"What happened with Imane Khelif and Angela Carini? Olympic boxing match sparks gender eligibility controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two boxers are now under scrutiny after being barred from previous competitions.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Sarah Jacoby<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won her first match at the\u00a0Paris Olympics<\/a>\u00a0this week. But her victory has come under scrutiny after viewers learned that she and another boxer, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, were disqualified last year from a competition outside the Olympics.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, Khelif defeated Italian boxer Angela Carini in a fight that lasted just 46 seconds,\u00a0NBC News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Following that bout, reports resurfaced that Khelif and Yu-ting were disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships last year in New Delhi after\u00a0failing to meet gender eligibility tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both were barred from competing after unspecified tests suggested they had male chromosomes, a decision the International Olympic Committee called “sudden and arbitrary” in a\u00a0statement released on Thursday<\/a>. In its statement, the IOC strongly reaffirmed that the two athletes were eligible to compete in Paris.<\/p>\n

Did a male boxer beat a woman at the Olympics?<\/h2>\n

No. Despite the controversy swirling online, Khelif has always competed as a woman. And there’s no indication that Khelif is intersex or transgender, NBC News reports.<\/p>\n

And in its statement, the IOC made it clear the boxers met all the rules necessary to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games. The statement also calls recent reports questioning the boxers\u2019 genders \u201cmisleading information about two female athletes” and states that the two have competed in the women’s category for many years.<\/p>\n