Paris Olympics: Controversy rises over women's boxing gender policy

Imane Khelif was cleared to compete in the women's boxing in Paris despite being disqualified from world championships in 2023 after failing to meet gender eligibility criteria.

During a boxing match, her opponent Angela Carini claimed her nose might have been broken by the powerful punches of Imane Khelif after insisting she could not fight on.

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[CptDadman]

I swear we are living in a South Park episode

[anurodhyadav]

This olympic has been a disgrace... horror show..

[PigletsRule]

Olympics get a gold medal for stupidity.

[shredzntredz]

She should sue the Olympics committee for putting her life in danger

[shanaadams]

Let the Women fight with women... Men fight with men & whatever ELSE FIGHT WITH WHATEVED ELSE!!!

[suzanneportch]

Brutal, stupid and totally avoidable...stop this nonsense now!

[Cj-nmgg]

This Olympics will be historical, it will be the Olympics that lost all credibility and will never be looked at the same again. Once was a great event now shameful and disgrace it will be remembered as !

[twagirayezueric]

Failed gender test ? The most absurd statement I have ever heard. How is that differentiating a women from men become even controversial

[jwoo]

Screw the testosterone levels that doesn’t mean anything, a man shouldn’t be boxing women in the Olympics plain & simple. Blaming it on testosterone levels is like saying a great white shark and a gold fish are comparable because they’re both fish. The world is circling the drain.

[jonathanlloyd]

I hate cancel culture, but I hate this more. Cancel the Olympics!

[eduardrijuc]

Imagine working so long be be the best to fight a dude at the end

[Durka-Durka]

The Olympics have no more redeeming qualities anymore

[Bungle-UK]

Who have thought that putting a man in the ring to beat up a woman would be such a problem 🤷‍♂️

[MythraLover-twlp]

Its so stupid how people pretend to believe this is fair.

[molkakaminski]

look at the opening ceremony, these games are an insult to sport

[DrFletchington]

There is a dangerous amount of incorrect misinformation being spoken here.

The runner Caster Semanya is 100% male, as is this boxer who just battered a female opponent.

Semnanya was born with a rare birth defect called DSD 46XY 5-ARD (5 alpha reductase deficiency - a condition that only males can have.

This condition causes malformed genitalia, that resemble a vagina at birth, but with male testes that remain inside the body, where they function normally and produce male levels of testosterone.

A male with malformed primary sex organs is not a female. That is why Semanya is banned. That is why this boxer must be banned.

It is not a grey area. It is not about 'gender.' It is about the safety and fairness to which all female athletes are entitled.

[zak]

When Israel is allowed to participate in the Olympics, it shows how messed up this world is.

[IsItTrue]

Mark Adams is talking absolute nonsense here

[shanefleet]

If they simply stopped biological men fighting/competing in Women’s sport this would never be an issue🤦‍♂️

[AaRr-bnxx]

Can we please have a separate category for boxers and athletes like this so that they can compete amongst themselves on an equal basis ?