The Latest Breaking News from Imane Khelif

The Taiwanese fighter followed Algeria’s Imane Khelif in featuring at the Paris Olympics amid widespread attention after failing gender eligibility tests in a previous tournament last year

LGBTQ+ athletes, officials and observers have warned that a deluge of hateful comments misidentifying a female boxer in the Paris Olympics as transgender or a man could pose dangers for the LGBTQ+ community and female athletes

‘Is sex something that you can see depending on which hormone, estrogen, or testosterone you preferentially produce? No, it’s not. Sex is much more complicated,’ expert tells Maya Oppenheim

Carini abandoned the bout after just 46 seconds and afterwards refused to hug or shake the hand of Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test at last year’s Boxing World Championship

Lin and Algerian Imane Khelif were both disqualified from last year’s World Championships for failing to meet gender eligibility criteria.

Italian Olympic boxer Angela Carini said she wanted to apologize to the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif amid misinformation about her gender spreading on social media. The post Boxer Who Abandoned Fight After 46 Seconds Apologizes To Rival After Gender Controversy first appeared on Bored Panda.

Imane Khelif was told she had the right ‘physical qualities’ to be a boxer

The fighter under scrutiny won her opening bout when opponent Angela Carini from Italy quits after 46 seconds.

The Hungarian Boxing Association has protested to the IOC over its decision to allow Imane Khelif to compete before her quarter-final bout with one of its boxers