Jemele Hill, Dawn Staley call out critics of controversial Olympic boxer: 'Hope Khelif sues some people'
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Italy's Angela Carini expresses regret over Olympic boxing match against fighter who failed gender test
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Hungarian federation objects to boxer's fight with Algeria's Khelif
PARIS : The Hungarian Boxing Federation has contacted the country's Olympic Committee (MOB) and the International Olympic Committee to object to Luca Anna Hamori's fight with Imane Khelif as a gender disupte rages, the governing body said on Friday.
Paris 2024: Carini apologises to Khelif, Lin Yu Ting makes winning start
Lin Yu Ting, one of the boxers at the centre of a gender row at the Olympics, won her opening bout on points today.
Lin Yu-ting wins opening Olympics bout on points amid gender controversy
Lin Yu-ting, one of the boxers at the centre of a gender row at the Olympics, won her opening bout on points after two-time gold medallist Nicola Adams waded into the controversy.
Taiwan Boxer Lin Yu-ting In Olympics Gender Row Reaches Quarter-Finals
One of the boxers at the centre of a widening gender scandal at the Paris Olympics won her opening bout on Friday to reach the quarter-finals. Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting beat Sitora Turdibekova from Uzbekistan on a unanimous points decision in the women's 57kg class. Lin, 28, is at the centre of a storm over the eligibility of women boxers, along with Imane Khelif, after the Algerian beat her Italian opponent Angela Carini in just 46 seconds on Thursday. Both Khelif and Lin were disqualified from the 2023 world championships in New Delhi run by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after failing to meet "eligibility criteria".
Boxing: Taiwan's Lin beats Uzbek Turdibekova amid fierce gender row
PARIS: Taiwan's double world champion Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the heart of a gender row, won her featherweight round of 16 bout against Uzbekistan's Sidora Turdibekova on points by unanimous decision at the Paris Olympics on Friday (Aug 2).
"She Has Lost Nine Times": Ex-Boxing World Champion Defends Imane Khelif
Irish ex-world champion Amy Broadhurst, who beat the Algerian boxer at the heart of an Olympics gender row, has defended her on social media and urged people to "stop the bullying." Broadhurst defeated Imane Khelif at the boxing World Championships in 2022, a year before the Algerian was disqualified by the International Boxing Federation after failing gender "eligibility criteria". "Personally I don't think she (Khelif) has done anything to 'cheat'," Broadhurst wrote on X. "I think it's the way she was born and that's out of her control."