NEW DELHI: The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) introduced on Friday that Angela Carini, an Italian boxer who suffered a defeat in her welterweight round-of-16 match towards Algerian Imane Khelif on the Paris Olympics, will probably be awarded a considerable sum of $50,000 in prize cash. The bout, which happened on Thursday, ended abruptly after simply 46 seconds.
Carini’s early exit from the competitors got here on account of Khelif’s relentless assault, with the Algerian boxer, who’s presently on the middle of a gender controversy, unleashing a flurry of punches that overwhelmed the Italian athlete, forcing her to withdraw within the opening spherical.
Along with the $50,000 prize cash allotted to Carini, the IBA additionally said that her federation would obtain $25,000, and her coach could be granted a further $25,000. This resolution comes amidst the continued dispute between the IBA and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), which revoked the boxing affiliation’s worldwide recognition final yr.
“I don’t perceive why they killed ladies’s boxing,” IBA President Umar Kremlev stated. “Solely eligible athletes ought to compete within the ring for the sake of security. I couldn’t have a look at her tears.”
Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu-ting, a two-time world champion from Taiwan, have been permitted to take part within the Paris Olympics regardless of being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for not assembly the IBA’s eligibility standards, which prohibit athletes with male XY chromosomes from competing in ladies’s occasions.
The IOC, which took over the group of the Paris 2024 boxing competitors after stripping the IBA of its standing as boxing’s governing physique resulting from governance points, is now on the middle of an argument concerning the participation of the 2 boxers.
In her subsequent bout, welterweight Khelif will face Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary.
In keeping with the IOC, the IBA’s resolution to disqualify the boxers final yr was arbitrary and the first motive for the uproar that has led to people reminiscent of British writer J. Okay. Rowling and billionaire Elon Musk expressing their opposition to their participation within the Video games.
Georgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, who met with IOC President Thomas Bach on Thursday, said that the Italian athlete had competed towards a boxer who had bodily benefits, and it was not a good struggle.
Nevertheless, Skye Nicolson, the WBC ladies’s world featherweight champion, highlighted that each Khelif and Lin have been defeated by ladies a number of instances all through their careers and argued that they “don’t deserve this mistreatment”.
“I’ve truly fought and sparred each of the ladies,” the Australian stated in an Instagram publish.
“They’ve grown up as women, as females, as ladies. They’ve competed as ladies the entire time. These aren’t naturally born males who’ve determined to name themselves ladies or establish as ladies to struggle ladies within the Olympics.
“I really feel just like the factor that occurred with the Italian woman was a publicity stunt greater than something.
IOC has said that the eligibility standards for athletes taking part within the Olympic Video games are primarily based on the principles established for the Tokyo Video games in 2021. These guidelines can’t be modified throughout an ongoing competitors. The choice comes amidst ongoing debates surrounding the participation of athletes with Variations of Sexual Dysfunction (DSD) in ladies’s occasions.
DSDs are a bunch of unusual situations that contain variations in genes, hormones, and reproductive organs. Some people with DSDs, regardless of being raised as females, possess XY intercourse chromosomes and have testosterone ranges that fall throughout the male vary. This has led to discussions concerning the equity of their participation in ladies’s sports activities.
Varied sports activities organizations have applied completely different approaches to deal with this subject. Some have set limits on the permissible ranges of testosterone for athletes competing in ladies’s occasions, whereas others have taken a stricter stance by prohibiting the participation of anybody who has undergone male puberty.
Carini’s early exit from the competitors got here on account of Khelif’s relentless assault, with the Algerian boxer, who’s presently on the middle of a gender controversy, unleashing a flurry of punches that overwhelmed the Italian athlete, forcing her to withdraw within the opening spherical.
Along with the $50,000 prize cash allotted to Carini, the IBA additionally said that her federation would obtain $25,000, and her coach could be granted a further $25,000. This resolution comes amidst the continued dispute between the IBA and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), which revoked the boxing affiliation’s worldwide recognition final yr.
“I don’t perceive why they killed ladies’s boxing,” IBA President Umar Kremlev stated. “Solely eligible athletes ought to compete within the ring for the sake of security. I couldn’t have a look at her tears.”
Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu-ting, a two-time world champion from Taiwan, have been permitted to take part within the Paris Olympics regardless of being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for not assembly the IBA’s eligibility standards, which prohibit athletes with male XY chromosomes from competing in ladies’s occasions.
The IOC, which took over the group of the Paris 2024 boxing competitors after stripping the IBA of its standing as boxing’s governing physique resulting from governance points, is now on the middle of an argument concerning the participation of the 2 boxers.
In her subsequent bout, welterweight Khelif will face Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary.
In keeping with the IOC, the IBA’s resolution to disqualify the boxers final yr was arbitrary and the first motive for the uproar that has led to people reminiscent of British writer J. Okay. Rowling and billionaire Elon Musk expressing their opposition to their participation within the Video games.
Georgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, who met with IOC President Thomas Bach on Thursday, said that the Italian athlete had competed towards a boxer who had bodily benefits, and it was not a good struggle.
Nevertheless, Skye Nicolson, the WBC ladies’s world featherweight champion, highlighted that each Khelif and Lin have been defeated by ladies a number of instances all through their careers and argued that they “don’t deserve this mistreatment”.
“I’ve truly fought and sparred each of the ladies,” the Australian stated in an Instagram publish.
“They’ve grown up as women, as females, as ladies. They’ve competed as ladies the entire time. These aren’t naturally born males who’ve determined to name themselves ladies or establish as ladies to struggle ladies within the Olympics.
“I really feel just like the factor that occurred with the Italian woman was a publicity stunt greater than something.
IOC has said that the eligibility standards for athletes taking part within the Olympic Video games are primarily based on the principles established for the Tokyo Video games in 2021. These guidelines can’t be modified throughout an ongoing competitors. The choice comes amidst ongoing debates surrounding the participation of athletes with Variations of Sexual Dysfunction (DSD) in ladies’s occasions.
DSDs are a bunch of unusual situations that contain variations in genes, hormones, and reproductive organs. Some people with DSDs, regardless of being raised as females, possess XY intercourse chromosomes and have testosterone ranges that fall throughout the male vary. This has led to discussions concerning the equity of their participation in ladies’s sports activities.
Varied sports activities organizations have applied completely different approaches to deal with this subject. Some have set limits on the permissible ranges of testosterone for athletes competing in ladies’s occasions, whereas others have taken a stricter stance by prohibiting the participation of anybody who has undergone male puberty.
