File photo Washington: Former US President Donald Trump once again sparked controversy by criticising two Olympic gold medalist female boxers, labelling them as men during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump’s remarks, made in the context of his pledge to “keep men out of women’s sports,” have reignited debates over gender and sports. Referring to … Read more
French prosecutors opened an investigation into an online harassment complaint made by Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif after a torrent of criticism and false claims about her sex during the Summer Games, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. The athlete’s lawyer Nabil Boudi filed a legal complaint with a special unit in the Paris prosecutor’s … Read more
Imane Khelif won the women’s 66kg final against China’s Yang Liu in a unanimous points decision (File) Paris, France: France has launched a cyberbullying probe following a complaint by Algerian Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, who was at the centre of a gender controversy at the Paris Olympic Games, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The investigation … Read more
Imane Khelif, controversial Algerian boxer won the welterweight gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Friday and addressed a gender dispute, affirming her identity as a woman. After winning the match, Imane said she is a woman who was born as a woman and living like a woman. “I am a woman like any woman. … Read more
Comedian Andy Richter said “treacherous nonsense” was behind the right-wing outrage over an Olympic boxer from Algeria who was born a woman and defeated a woman in Paris this week. Richter, once Conan O’Brien’s talk-show sidekick, seized the spotlight to mock conservatives such as Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) who accused … Read more
