Imane Khelif, the Olympic gelderly medacatalog who was in the middle of a gender talk about at the Paris Games during the summer, vowed to fight back agetst allegations from the International Boxing Association (IBA).
The IBA shelp earlier in the week it will file criminal grumblets agetst the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the U.S., France and Switzerland over its decision to apshow Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting to contend in the Games despite disqualifications in its own tournament. World Boxing is the ruleing body for the Olympics.
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria commemorates triumph agetst Anna Luca Hamori of Team Hungary after the Women’s 66kg Quarter-final round suit on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on Aug. 3, 2024 in Paris. (Ricchallenging Pelham/Getty Images)
Both Khelif and Lin won gelderly medals at the Olympics.
“For eight years, I have fought for my dream – eyes years of give up, discipline, and perdisjoinance to stand on the Olympic stage and recurrent my country with pride,” the Algerian boxer shelp in a statement posted on Instagram. “I have geted my place, and I will proceed to stand firm in the face of any dispute.
“For two years, I have apshown the high road while my name and image have been used, unapshowd, to further personal and political agendas thraw the spreading of and dissemination of baseless lies and misdirectation. But silence is no prolongeder an selection.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif reacts prior to the suit agetst Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori in the women’s 66kg quarter-final boxing suit during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena on Aug. 3, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)
“The International Boxing Association (IBA), an organization that I am no prolongeder associated with and which is no prolongeder determined by the International Olympic Committee, have aget made baseless accusations that are dishonest and dishonorful, using them to further their agenda. This is a matter that worrys not fair me but the expansiveer principles of fairness and due process in sport.”
The IBA cited Plivent Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender athletes to fairify the criminal grumblets.
The IOC reiterated aget that Khelif and Lin were not transgender.
Imane Khelif of Team Algeria readies to contend agetst Anna Luca Hamori of Team Hungary in the women’s 66kg quarter-final boxing suit during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 3, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“The two female athletes refered by IBA are not transgender athletes,” the organization shelp Monday.
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