{"id":3191,"date":"2024-08-07T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2024-08-07T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:00:36","slug":"imane-khelif-sends-loud-clear-message-to-her-haters-as-she-finally-addresses-all-the-abuse-shes-received-at-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Imane Khelif Sends Loud &#038; Clear Message To Her Haters As She Finally Addresses All The Abuse She\u2019s Received At Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria\u2019s Imane Khelif secured her spot in the women\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/boxing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boxing<\/a>\u00a0final at the 2024 Olympic Games with a win over Thailand\u2019s Janjaem Suwannapheng before opening up on all the abuse she\u2019s received since that controversial match vs. Italian Angela Carini.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old cut an emotional figure as she broke down in tears after beating Hungary\u2019s Anna Luca Hamori in Saturday\u2019s quarter-final but was jumping for joy following her semi-final triumph on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She would also discuss the online bullying she\u2019s had to deal with amid the claims of her being transgender while speaking to SNTV in an interview conducted in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cGod willing, this crisis will culminate in a gold medal, and that would be the best response,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she said (H\/T the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-2024-imane-khelif-boxing-gender-7b171980b05bcef2117a7615f212eba9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>).<em>\u00a0\u201cI send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects, massive effects.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Imane Khelif wins her semifinals match and advances to the Olympic finals with a message for everyone: &#8220;Refrain from bullying&#8221; \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IA5Yq8QqEi\">pic.twitter.com\/IA5Yq8QqEi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women Posting W&#8217;s (@womenpostingws) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/womenpostingws\/status\/1820945796550029315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-imane-khelif-is-grateful-to-the-ioc-for-having-her-back\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Imane Khelif Is Grateful To The IOC For Having Her Back<\/h2>\n<p>Imane Khelif, who admitted her parents are worried about her, added that bullying\u00a0<em>\u201ccan destroy people, it can kill people\u2019s thoughts, spirit and mind. It can divide people. And because of that, I ask them to refrain from bullying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She thanked the International Olympic Committee for having her back and doing her \u201cjustice\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p>IOC president Thomas Bach has indeed spoken out in the Algerian\u2019s defense, insisting she was eligible to fight as a woman in the Olympics because she was born and raised female and has competed as a woman in the past. He pointed out that she is also registered as a woman on her passport.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif will face China\u2019s Yang Lui in the welterweight women\u2019s final this Friday. Given the controversy still surrounding the Algerian, the match should generate a lot of buzz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria\u2019s Imane Khelif secured her spot in the women\u2019s\u00a0boxing\u00a0final at the 2024 Olympic Games with a win over Thailand\u2019s Janjaem Suwannapheng before opening up on all the abuse she\u2019s received &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}