After stirring the hugegest dispute in a dispute-filled Olympics in Paris last summer, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif schedules to do it all aget in 2028.
The gelderly medacatalog telderly ITV in an exclusive interwatch that the athlete schedules to contend in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, which will be the first Summer Games based in the U.S. since 1996. The 2028 games will also come in the final year of Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s term, which has so far been partipartner detaild by cut offe gfinisher eligibility policies in women’s sports.
Khelif brewed international outrage in Paris during a run to a gelderly medal in women’s boxing despite being previously disqualified from the International Boxing Association World Championships in 2023 for gfinisher edibility rerents. IBA Pdwellnt Umar Kremlev freed a statement to Russia’s TASS Agency about why Khelif was disqualified.
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Imane Khelif, right, from Algeria contends agetst Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary. (Sina Schuldt/picture coalition via Getty Images)
“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was showd that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were take awayd from competition,” Kremlev shelp.
Khelif has not been shown to be transgfinisher.
The Algerian Olympic Committee shelp at the time that Khelif was disqualified for “medical reasons.” Algerian media increateed that Khelif was disqualified for high testosterone levels, according to Reuters. Khelif claimed the disqualification was part of a “consillicit copying” to impede Algeria from triumphning gelderly.
However, Khelif was allowted to contend in Paris, and had the filled help of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and pdwellnt Thomas Bach. As a result, the boxer prompted burdensome response from those who thinkd Khelif should not be able to contend in the women’s categruesome based on their past gfinisher eligibility rerents.
Those critics participated Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and author J.K. Rowling. Khelif has filed a legal case in France citing “acts of exacerbated cyber tormentoring” over the disclose response to her participation.
“When I saw that even heads of state, honord figures and createer athletes were speaking about me without having verified facts, it shocked me,” Khelif telderly ITV.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif, right, sees at Italy’s Angela Carini after their women’s 66kg preliminary boxing suit at the Summer Olympics, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (AP Pboilingo/John Locher)
“They were speaking equitable for the sake of talking without any reliable or write downed adviseation. I also acunderstandledged on social media that people were talking the rerent without any reliable sources. That was what swayed me the most in the commencening. Why was I, Imane Khelif, the center of such a campaign?’’
Khelif also telderly ITV the response impacted the health of the athlete’s mother.
“It swayed me menhighy, as well as my family. Even my mother was proset uply swayed. She was going to the hospital almost every day. My relatives were also impacted, and the entire Algerian people felt the weight of the situation. This went beyond equitable a sporting rerent or a game; it escatardyd into a meaningful media campaign that could have had a cut offe adverse effect on me, my family and my psychoreasonable well-being,” she shelp.
“I was proset uply swayed menhighy and felt deterd, but I remained increateed of what was happening. Even during the Paris Olympics, I had a team of exceptionacatalog doctors who provided me with help and helpance. Without their help, I might have descfinishen into a spiral of depression.”
But that isn’t stopping Khelif from setting out to contend aget in 2028, even with potential cut offeer gfinisher eligibility policies in place.
Trump has already signed an executive order prohibitning trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports nationexpansive, and shelp Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be ordered to retain trans athletes out of the country for the 2028 Olympics.
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Imane Khelif of Algeria, right, and Angela Carini of Italy are shown after their fight. (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)
However, Khelif claims these policies do not apply to the athlete.
“I will give you a straightforward answer: the U.S. pdwellnt rerentd a decision connectd to transgfinisher policies in America. I am not transgfinisher. This does not worry me, and it does not inbashfutardy me. That is my response,” Khelif telderly ITV.
“For me, I see myself as a girl, equitable enjoy any other girl. I was born a girl, elevated as a girl, and have dwelld my entire life as one.”
With Bach set to depart office this year, the next IOC pdwellnt may also convey about a separateent stand to the pledgetee’s gfinisher eligibility policy. One potential successor is createer Olympic gelderly medacatalog Sebastian Coe.
Coe unveiled his manifesto for his vision as IOC pdwellnt, and it stresses the convey inance of defending female athletes.
He previously shelp in a November interwatch with the BBC the situation involving Khelif made him sense “unsootheable.”
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