The Boston Globe issued a retraction on Saturday after running a print headline that misidentified Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif as “transgender.” Khelif, who has now guaranteed she will win at least a bronze medal at the Summer 2024 games, previously sparked controversy after a bout with Italy’s Angela Carini ended after only 46 seconds. The Algerian boxer, who was born female and has competed in women’s boxing events for years, was disqualified from another competition last year by an outside organization currently at odds with the International Olympic Committee after failing an unspecified “gender eligibility test.” The International Boxing…

Imane Khelif decried the questions over her gender and the hateful remarks she has faced because of them and called for an end to “bullying all athletes” in her first extensive comments on the issue. Khelif, 25, and fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting have been at the center of controversy over unsubstantiated claims about their gender, which erupted on Thursday after Italian boxer Angela Carini threw in the towel 46 seconds into her bout against Khelif. “I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all…

PARIS – Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes after being greatly affected by the international backlash against her.The Algerian athlete spoke about her tumultuous Olympic experience on Sunday night in an interview with SNTV, a sports video partner of The Associated Press.“I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects, massive effects,” Khelif said in…

CNN — The Olympic Games is bound up with questions of nationality, with crowds waving a kaleidoscopic collage of different flags and national anthems playing for every gold medal winner. So when boxer Cindy Ngamba pumped her chest and gestured to the crest on her vest when she guaranteed herself an Olympic bronze medal on Sunday after beating France’s Davina Michel, it didn’t necessarily seem like an extraordinary moment. Except it was the Refugee Olympic Team crest that Ngamba held up as she celebrated the historic achievement of becoming their first ever medal-winning athlete after winning her women’s middleweight quarterfinal…

In a press conference Sunday, IOC spokesman Mark Adams delivered a strong condemnation of the IBA. (Li Ming/Xinhua via Getty Images)PARIS — The International Olympic Committee has condemned and dismissed chromosome tests taken by the International Boxing Association in 2022 and 2023 that disqualified boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting from international competition.Both Khelif and Lin continue to fight in the 2024 Olympics, with both supporters and critics — including from within the Olympic community — increasing in volume.On Saturday, 3 Wire Sports reported that the IBA had sent a letter to the IOC in June…

LOS ANGELES – Terence Crawford belongs among a special class now that he ranks as a four-division champion with Saturday night’s tightly contested unanimous-decision victory over World Boxing Association junior-middleweight champion Israil Madrimov. But as the facial swelling, the late-fight corner panic and the inability to back up Uzbekistan’s Madrimov fully revealed, new 154-pound champion Crawford, 36, can now let go of this pursuit of recently undisputed 168-pound champion Canelo Alvarez. Of course it would make a nice fight poster to match the four-division champions and decade-long pound-for-pound residents in a super-fight. Yes, it would take Crawford’s bank account to…

Algeria‘s Imane Khelif is facing attacks on the internet after several social media accounts spread false information about her gender following her fight against Italian boxer Angela Carini at the Paris Olympics. Khelif entered the ring on Thursday to face Carini. The match, however, ended after a mere 46 seconds because Carini said she took a punch to the nose and was in too much pain, BBC Sport reported.Conservative social media pages in particular sparked outrage, saying Khelif is a man and she should have never been allowed to fight against Carini. While questioning Khelif’s gender, the critics resurfaced the 2023 decision…

Logan Paul admitted to “spreading misinformation” on social media after wrongly calling Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif a man in a since-deleted X/Twitter post. After Khelif’s win in a match against Italian boxer Angela Carini at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, Paul posted on X: “This is the purest form of evil unfolding right before our eyes. A man was allowed to beat up a woman on a global stage, crushing her life’s dream while fighting for her deceased father. This delusion must end.” Khelif is a woman who is not transgender nor identifies as intersex, according to GLAAD and…

A boxer at the centre of the gender eligibility storm at the Paris Olympics wrote her name on the floor of the ring on Saturday, and burst into tears after securing an Olympic medal.Algeria’s Imane Khelif was overwhelmed with emotion and repeatedly slammed the floor of the ring with her hands, having beaten the Hungarian fighter Anna Luca Hamori convincingly in the quarter-final of the 66kg category. After the fight, Hamori congratulated her opponent and wished her luck for the remainder of the competition. Asked about the controversy, she said: “I don’t care.”The 25-year-old Khelif is now guaranteed Algeria’s first…

The International Olympic Committee has been forced to issue a correction after its president, Thomas Bach, got in a muddle when defending a decision to let an Algerian boxer who failed a gender test fight in the Paris Games.In a sign of the issue’s complexity, Bach confused the terms transgender and DSD, an abbreviation of “differences in sexual development”, as he sought to quell the row over a swiftly terminated bout between Algerian fighter Imane Khelif and Italian Angela Carini.“I will not confuse the two issues,” Bach said, before confusing the two issues. He said: “We are not talking about…