The Paris Olympics are facing questions about the decision to allow two boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, to compete in the women’s division after they were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships.
The Paris Olympics are facing questions about the decision to allow two boxers to compete in the women’s division after they were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships.
Those questions only intensified Thursday when one of them, Imane Khelif of Algeria, forced her opponent, Italy’s Angela Carini, to withdraw 46 seconds into their opening-round bout.
Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan failed gender eligibility tests at the world championships in New Delhi and were disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA).
But the IBA has no part in running the Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee, which does not require similar tests, has cleared them.
