{"id":83200,"date":"2024-08-03T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/algerias-imane-khelif-beats-hungarian-hamori-to-ensure-olympic-medal-amid-boxing-gender-row\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T21:26:32","slug":"algerias-imane-khelif-beats-hungarian-hamori-to-ensure-olympic-medal-amid-boxing-gender-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/algerias-imane-khelif-beats-hungarian-hamori-to-ensure-olympic-medal-amid-boxing-gender-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria\u2019s Imane Khelif beats Hungarian Hamori to ensure Olympic medal amid boxing gender row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Imane Khelif beat Hungary\u2019s Luca Anna Hamori by unanimous decision in a welterweight quarter-final at the Paris Games on Saturday to ensure Algeria\u2019s first Olympic boxing medal since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Khelif, who has been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1849575\">eye of a storm<\/a> about eligibility, had a quick start against Hamori, letting fly with flurries of lightning-fast punches to win the first two rounds on every judge\u2019s scorecard, despite the Hungarian landing a couple of strong shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Algerian was slightly less willing to engage in exchanges in the final round, which had more than its fair share of clinching and grappling, but she did enough to win by a comfortable margin.<\/p>\n<p>The pair hugged after the final bell before a tearful Khelif embraced her coaches on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1849725\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Khelif and a second boxer, Taiwan\u2019s Lin Yu-ting, were disqualified at the 2023 World Championships in New Delhi after falling foul of the International Boxing Association\u2019s (IBA) eligibility rules, which include preventing athletes with XY chromosomes from competing in women\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>The IBA did not specify on what grounds they failed. It has never been shown that the boxers have a genetic condition giving rise to a difference in sexual development (DSD).<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which last year stripped the IBA of its status as boxing\u2019s governing body over governance issues and took charge of the Paris 2024 boxing competition, cleared both boxers to compete.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1192620\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGod willing, we will continue fighting for my country that I love the most,\u201d Khelif told Algerian state television after her win.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif will face Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand, whom she beat at the world championships before being disqualified, in Tuesday\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"fan-support\" href=\"#fan-support\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Fan support<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt is hard, she has suffered a lot \u2014 as a child and now as a champion, she has suffered so much during these Games,\u201d said Khelif\u2019s coach Mohamed Chaoua.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the humanity? Where are the associations for women\u2019s rights? She is a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The North Paris Arena had many Algerian fans in attendance, who cheered on Khelif throughout the bout and chanted \u201cImane, Imane, Imane\u201d loudly while waving the country\u2019s flags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were quite sad to see that controversy; she\u2019s an athlete who is well supported in Algeria and we\u2019re behind her,\u201d Algerian fan Kawther Laanani told <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>IOC president Thomas Bach on Saturday said there \u201cwas never any doubt\u201d that Khelif and Lin were women who had every right to compete at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Hungary\u2019s boxing federation said it had contacted the IOC to object to Khelif\u2019s participation in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday, Hungary\u2019s IOC representative Balazs Furjes said there was never any question of Hamori not fighting Khelif and the team trusted the IOC to make the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif won her round-of-16 bout in 46 seconds on Thursday when her Italian opponent Angela Carini pulled out of the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Carini was hit with multiple punches in the first 30 seconds, before raising her hand and returning to her corner to withdraw from the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian later said she wanted to apologise to Khelif in an interview with Italian newspaper <em>Gazzetta dello Sport<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s double world champion Lin faces Svetlana Kamenova Staneva of Bulgaria in a featherweight quarter-final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian Olympic Committee said it had voiced its concerns over Khelif\u2019s and Lin\u2019s presence at the tournament during a meeting with the IOC\u2019s Medical and Scientific Commission on July 27.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imane Khelif beat Hungary\u2019s Luca Anna Hamori by unanimous decision in a welterweight quarter-final at the Paris Games on Saturday to ensure Algeria\u2019s first Olympic boxing medal since 2000. The 25-year-old Khelif, who has been in the eye of a storm about eligibility, had a quick start against Hamori, letting fly with flurries of lightning-fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/08\/03235230cfa666c.jpg?r=235341","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}