Angela Carini wins title months after Olympic withdrawal against Imane Khelif, who failed sex eligibility test
Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya joins ‘Fox Across America’ to give her take on Algerian boxer Imane Khelif forcing Italy's Angela Carini to quit after just 46 seconds during a match at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Boxer Angela Carini won her eighth Italian women's title Sunday, marking a comeback after withdrawing against a controversial opponent at the Paris Olympics.
"Tonight was my revenge," Carini told reporters after the match, via The Telegraph, months after she was beaten in the face in front of a global audience by an athlete whose birth gender has been questioned.
Carini, 26, withdrew from her bout against Algeria's Imane Khelif in Paris after several powerful blows to the head. Khelif's inclusion at the Olympics was the biggest controversy of the Paris games after the Algerian had failed gender eligibility tests to compete in other international women's boxing events.
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Algeria's Imane Khelif (in red) punches Italy's Angela Carini in the women's 66-kilogram preliminary round of 16 during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena in Villepinte Aug. 1, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)
Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association (IBA) World Championships, and IBA President Umar Kremlev said the boxer had "XY chromosomes," which are associated with biological males.
Carini abandoned her match against Khelif after just 46 seconds.
"I got into the ring to fight," Carini said in Paris, via Italy’s ANSA. "I didn't give up, but one punch hurt too much. And, so, I said ‘enough.'"
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