The Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) condemned on Thursday August 1 the “ unethical attacks » against boxer Imane Khelif ahead of her opening bout at the Paris Games. After failing a gender eligibility test last year, Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting, who will fight Friday, were disqualified from last year’s world championships but deemed eligible to box in the women’s competition in Paris. Both boxed in the women’s event at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. The COA « denounces in the strongest terms the malicious and unethical attacks directed against our distinguished athlete, Imane Khelif, by certain foreign media ” he said in a statement released hours before his fight against Italian Angela Carini. The COA denounced ” lies that he considers completely unfair “.
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