Boxing champion angered over Olympic gender controversy: 'Definitely dropped the ball'

Fox News’ Greg Palkot and 2-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields on a female boxer quitting in the ring at the Paris Olympics after facing off against an opponent deemed to have male chromosomes.

An Italian boxer's decision to abandon her Olympic match against an Algerian fighter who was deemed to have male chromosomes has reinvigorated controversy around gender fairness.

A former Olympic boxing champion called out organizers for allowing the fight to even take place on "America's Newsroom" Thursday.

"It is very hard to qualify for the Olympics," two-time Team USA Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields said. 

"You have to go through so many different international tournaments, country tournaments to even make it to the Olympics. So, for me, I can understand her devastation. But it shouldn't be ruined due to a man. And I think that the Olympics definitely dropped the ball."

ITALIAN BOXER'S FIGHT AGAINST OLYMPIC OPPONENT DEEMED TO HAVE MALE CHROMOSOMES ‘NOT AN EVEN CONTEST,' PM SAYS

Angela Carini of Team Italy reacts after abandoning the Women's 66kg preliminary round match against Imane Khelif of Team Algeria in the first round on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 01, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in Paris Thursday after Carini abandoned the match 46 seconds after it began, saying afterward that one punch from Khelif "hurt too much" to continue.

"[At] my first Olympics, I was 17 years old, so I hadn't even fully developed as a woman, so I couldn't imagine getting inside the ring with a biological man," Shields said. 

"I don't even see how the Olympics done something like this."

Khelif fought