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Algerian gender-row boxer Imane Khelif said that winning Paris Olympics gold on Friday (Aug 9) was the perfect response to "attacks" and "bullying", and declared: "I am a woman like any other."
Algerian gender-row boxer Imane Khelif said that winning Paris Olympics gold on Friday was the perfect response to "attacks" and "bullying", and declared: "I am a woman like any other." Khelif comprehensively won the women's 66kg final at Roland Garros, having been the focus of intense scrutiny in the French capital in the past fortnight. Together with Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, who fights in the 57kg women's final on Saturday, Khelif was disqualified from last year's world championships after they failed gender eligibility testing. However they were cleared to compete in Paris, setting the stage for one of the biggest controversies of the Games.
Algerian gender-row boxer Imane Khelif said that winning Paris Olympics gold on Friday (Aug 9) was the perfect response to "attacks" and "bullying", and declared: "I am a woman like any other."
Crowds of women have shown up at Imane Khelif's fights during the Paris Olympics to rally around the Algerian boxer as she faced online abuse over misconceptions about her gender.
PARIS : The alleys and stairways of Roland Garros, that most genteel of stadiums, were flooded with Algerian flags and roars on Friday as fans of Imane Khelif, the female boxer thrust at the centre of a gender dispute, came to cheer her to Olympic gold.
PARIS — Crowds of women have shown up at Imane Khelif's fights during the Paris Olympics to rally around the Algerian boxer as she faced online abuse over misconceptions about her gender.
PARIS: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defied a major gender controversy to win gold at the Paris Olympics on Friday (Aug 9) in front of a pulsating Roland Garros crowd that roared her to victory.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at the centre of an Olympic gender eligibility row, goes for gold in Paris on Friday as Thierry Henry bids to lead France's footballers to glory. With just three days of sport to go at the Games, there is a packed athletics programme at the Stade de France. The boxing competition has been overshadowed by a bitter row over whether Khelif and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting should be allowed to compete in the women's category.