Paris Olympics 2024: IOC responds after boxer Carini withdraws from Khelif fight | BBC News
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Published 2024-08-02
Khelif is one of two athletes who have been cleared to compete in the women's boxing in Paris, having been disqualified from last year's Women's World Championships for failing to meet eligibility criteria.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the two boxers are "real people" who have been competing "for many years".
He added that "this is not a transgender issue".
Khelif will face Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori in the 66kg quarter-finals on Saturday, where another win would guarantee her an Olympic medal.
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All Comments (21)
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This is an insult to all the women who have worked all their life for the Olympic.
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IOC spokesman didn't say anything, what an absolute muppet
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How have we become this brain dead as a society that we can’t see this for exactly what it is!
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How they allowed a man to fight with the women... that's disgusting...shame on olympic games
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The olympics is a complete circus 🤡
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People have gotten dumber
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how they can try and defend this is unreal. and sadly this is just the foot in the door for people like this
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I saw on tik tok that the Algerian boxer is born female ...
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The ability of some of these top people to speak for minutes without saying anything still surprises me every time
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This should have been sorted out before the Olympics.
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What’s amazing is Eurosport blocked the comments sections on that specific video but not on other sports highlights, 😂
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Just switch the sign on bathrooms, lockers, sports, etc from mens and womens, to Y and Y-less. Problem solved.
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Funny how no trans man ever wants to compete in the men’s division isn’t it?
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First, the worst opening ceremony, and now the worst Olympics ever.
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Carini apologised to khelif today.
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It’s not just losing out on a possible medal to a cheater, it’s all the lost opportunities that comes with that glory of competing and winning in professional sports.
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I'm a little confused, if someone is banned from an international boxing competition because of the doubt about their masculinity/gender/whatever term is preferred, then why are they suddenly eligible for the Olympics...? The vetting process should be a blanket process, not one rule for one, etc. The world has gone mad...!
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A huge disgrace - a failure on a global scale.
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Western disaster. Gender equality took different direction
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Man the instagram and twitter comments were the exact opposite.I thought I was the idiot there
