PHOTO: Algeria’s Imane Khelif, left, fights Italy’s Angela Carini in their women’s 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Olympics, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/John Locher)
The internet erupted Thursday over the latest Olympics controversy: Italian boxer Angela Carini abandoned her fight against Algerian opponent Imane Khelif just 46 seconds into their match.
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The shocking and painful moment, which included Carini breaking down in tears inside the ring, is further igniting controversy over allowing biological men to compete in female sports.
But at this point it’s unclear if this match definitively meets that criteria.
Khelif — whom outlets like Fox News have said was “deemed to have male chromosomes” — is allegedly one of two boxers competing at the Olympic games this year who previously failed gender eligibility tests and, as a result, was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships, according to The Guardian.
However, Khelif reportedly doesn’t identify as transgender. Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who is the second boxer to have purportedly failed gender eligibility tests, also hasn’t embraced the label, according to Time.
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The controversy of their gender has swept over the sport since last year, when the two were both disqualified
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