Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif threatened a lawsuit in opposition to a French journalist over final week’s report which alleged the controversial boxer had testicles.
Khelif appeared on Italy’s “Lo Stato delle Cose” on Thursday and touched on the report.
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Imane Khelif of Crew Algeria competes in opposition to Anna Luca Hámori of Crew Hungary, not pictured, within the ladies’s 66kg quarter-final boxing match throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the North Paris Area, in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 3, 2024. Khelif gained the match and superior to the semifinals. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
“We’ll meet with the French journalist in court docket,” the Algerian athlete stated, by way of NDTV.
The report from Le Correspondent cited a French-Algerian medical report and claimed Khelif was impacted by a intercourse growth dysfunction that’s solely present in organic males. The report stated that and not using a correct medical examination, the flawed gender is assigned at start.
It was Khelif’s first remarks in regards to the report since its launch. Fox Information Digital reached out to Khelif’s legal professionals however didn’t hear again.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) informed Fox Information Digital it understood that Khelif was getting ready a lawsuit in opposition to the journalist.
“We perceive that Imane Khelif has taken authorized motion in opposition to people who commented on her scenario throughout the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, and can be getting ready a lawsuit in response to the newest reporting,” the IOC stated. “The IOC won’t remark whereas authorized motion is ongoing, or on media stories about unverified paperwork whose origin can’t be confirmed.”
The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation President Umar Kremlev additionally responded to the report.
Imane Khelif of Crew Algeria celebrates victory in opposition to Anna Luca Hámori of Crew Hungary, not pictured, after the Girls’s 66kg Quarter-final spherical match on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at North Paris Area on Aug. 3, 2024. (Richard Pelham/Getty Pictures)
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“Everybody already is aware of the information. The Worldwide Olympic Committee has violated all sports activities guidelines by placing a person in opposition to a girl. Exams have once more confirmed that Imane Khelif is certainly a person,” Kremlev stated final week. “Immediately, because the President of the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation, which upholds gender equality and protects each ladies’s and males’s boxing, I demand that Thomas Bach and his crew each verbally and in writing, apologize to the worldwide boxing group.
“Thomas Bach himself bears direct duty for this, as he personally lobbied for this to occur – for males to compete in opposition to ladies. On behalf of all boxers on the earth, I demand them to kneel and apologize to the boxing group and to these ladies who’ve been crushed and abused. Thomas Bach, I’m now ready, as is everybody in IBA, to your official apology.”
Khelif was embroiled in controversy earlier than and all through the Paris Olympics after stories surfaced over a failed gender check that led to a disqualification on the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation World Championships. The Algerian Olympic Committee stated on the time that Khelif was disqualified for “medical causes.”
The problem was a darkish cloud over the ladies’s boxing portion of the Olympics, as Khelif confronted accusations of being a person competing within the ladies’s division. Khelif pushed again on all accusations about gender.
President-elect Donald Trump and Italian Giorgi Meloni each remarked in regards to the Khelif controversy.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif reacts prior the match in opposition to Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori within the ladies’s 66kg quarter-final boxing match throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the North Paris Area in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 3, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“I’ve seen that there are various politicians and presidents who communicate and not using a supply, and it’s one thing unusual, as a result of they make statements and not using a foundation, with out actuality,” Khelif stated, by way of The Telegraph.
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Khelif has already filed lawsuits in opposition to a number of individuals who known as the boxer a person, together with “Harry Potter” writer J. Ok. Rowling.
Fox Information’ Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
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