This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. It began when news resurfaced that the International Boxing Association had disqualified Khelif and another female boxer, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, from the 2023 world championships for allegedly flunking a gender test. Khelif has competed in women’s boxing for years without issue—she placed fifth in her weight class in the Tokyo Olympics in …
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the women’s featherweight quarterfinal between Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting and Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva, with an Olympic medal up for grabs and a scandal embroiling the build up. Yu-Ting is one of two fighters, the other being Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who are banned from International Boxing Association competition for having failed a gender …
VILLEPINTE, France: Imane Khelif and Angela Carini exchanged a few brisk punches in their 46 seconds of competition in the Paris ring. “I felt a severe pain in my nose, and with the maturity of a boxer, I said ‘enough,’ because I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to, I couldn’t finish the match,” Carini said. I did it with …
Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout on August 1 when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds. The Algerian Olympic Committee issued a statement Wednesday condemning what it termed “lies” and “unethical targeting and maligning of our esteemed athlete, Imane Khelif, with baseless propaganda from certain foreign media outlets.” Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, …
