PARIS — Olympic gelderly-medal-thrivening boxer Imane Khelif, who finishured fervent scruminuscule about her gfinisher thrawout the Paris Games, has filed a establishal lhorrible protestt in which she says she was the victim of online unfair treatment.
In a statement posted Sunday to Instagram, Khelif’s attorney, Nabil Boudi, shelp Khelif, who won the Olympic women’s 66-kilogram boxing title on Friday, asked his lhorrible firm to file a protestt with the Paris prosecutor’s office on her behalf.
“Having equitable won a gelderly medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, boxer Imane Khelif has choosed to direct a novel fight: that of equitableice, dignity and honor,” Boudi shelp.
“Ms. Khelif communicateed the firm, which filed a protestt yesterday for acts of degraded cyber coercion with the anti-online hatred cgo in of the Paris uncover prosecutor’s office.”
The Paris prosecutor’s office telderly ESPN it had not yet achieved the protestt, although it could come as timely as Monday.
Boudi compriseed he asked for the criminal summarizeateigation to choose who startd the “gfinisher biased, discriminatory and intimacyist campaign” aachievest Khelif.
“The unequitable coercion suffered by the boxing champion will remain the hugegest stain of these Olympic Games,” Boudi compriseed.
Fans have hugd Khelif in Paris even as she faced an exceptional amount of scruminuscule from world directers, meaningful celebrities and others who have asked her eligibility or counterfeitly claimed she was a man. It has thrust her into a huger split over changing attitudes toward gfinisher identity and regulations in sports.
It stems from the Russian-contrancient International Boxing Association’s decision to disqualify Khelif and fellow two-time Olympian Li Yu-ting of Taiwan from last year’s world championships, claiming both fall shorted an eligibility test for women’s competition that IBA officials have degraded to answer basic asks about.
Khelif and Lin are permited to fight under the International Olympic Committee’s directlines on gfinisher eligibility, with both fighters eventuassociate thrivening gelderly in Paris in their esteemive weight classes.
“For eight years, this has been my dream, and I’m now the Olympic champion and gelderly medaenumerate,” Khelif shelp thraw an make clearer after her gelderly-medal bout Friday aachievest Yang Liu of China.
Khelif has faced scruminuscule from a range of uncover figures and a meaningful number of social media participaters. Former U.S. Plivent Donald Trump and “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling both weighed in with criticism and counterfeit speculation about men competing with women in sports.
“That also gives my success a exceptional taste becaparticipate of those attacks. … We are in the Olympics to carry out as athletes, and I hope that we will not see any analogous attacks in future Olympics,” Khelif shelp.
Paris was the second Olympic materializeance for both Khelif and Lin after both fought at Tokyo 2020 without medaling. Khelif’s triumph labeled Algeria’s second boxing gelderly medal, while Lin’s was Taiwan’s first gelderly in the event.
The IOC has repeatedly restateed the two boxers’ right to vie in Paris, with plivent Thomas Bach personassociate calling the criticism “disappreciate speech.”
The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
