Boxer Angela Carini won her eighth Italian women’s title on Sunday. It’s a comeback after withdrawing from a controversial rival at the Paris Olympics.
“Tonight was my revenge,” Carini told reporters after the match, via The Telegraph. This comes a few months after she was beaten in front of a worldwide audience by an athlete who was questioned about her biological sex.
Carini, 26, withdrew from a fight with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in Paris after receiving several violent blows to the head. Khelif’s inclusion in the Olympics is the biggest dispute. of the Paris Games after the Algerian failed a gender qualification test to compete in other international women’s boxing competitions.
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Algeria’s Imane Khelif (red) punches Italy’s Angela Carini in the women’s 66kg preliminary round of the round of 16 during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena in Villepinte, Aug. 1, 2024. (Mohammad Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)
Kelif has been disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association (IBA) World Championships and IBA President Umar Kremlev said the boxer has an “XY chromosome” which is associated with male birth.
Karina abandon her competition with Cliff in just 46 seconds
“I went into the ring to fight,” Carini said in Paris, via Italy’s ANSA, “I didn’t give up. But one punch hurt too much. And I said, ‘That’s enough’.”
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Imane Khelif of Algeria (right) defeats Angela Carini of Italy in the women’s 66 kg qualifying match at the 2024 Summer Olympics Aug. 1, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Carini before told reporters Her goal at the Olympics is to win a medal for her late father.
Clef wins gold in Paris And the women’s gold medalist wasn’t the only boxer to be disqualified for failing a gender qualification test: Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting won gold in another women’s weight category in Paris. Which causes dissatisfaction as well.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended Khelif and Yu-ting’s inclusion in the women’s competition to the end.
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Khelif later filed suit against several individuals, including Elon Musk and JK Rowling, who criticized the athlete and the IOC for its inclusion. Allegedly Sexual “Aggravated Acts of Cyber Harassment”
Clef threatened to sue a French journalist again in November over reports alleging the boxer had testicles.
“We will meet the French journalist in court,” the Algerian athlete said on NDTV.
Carini previously said she wanted to “apologise” to Clef for the withdrawal which brought negative attention to Algerians.
Angela Carini of Italy before the women’s 66 kg prelims against Imane Khelif of Algeria at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena Aug. 1, 2024 in Paris. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
“All this conflict makes me sad,” Carini told the BBC. “I apologize to my opponent if the IOC says she can fight. I respect that decision.”
Carini coldly gave Cliff a cold shoulder after the fight and said she was sorry.
“It wasn’t something I set out to do,” Carini said. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had burned down.”
Still, Carini felt some sense of “revenge” had surfaced on Sunday.
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