From Breitbart: Former Olympic boxer and Olympic boxing trainer Rafa Lozano says that Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif was considered too dangerous for women to train with during a recent boxing retreat in Spain.
The Spanish boxer and trainer told Radio Marca that allowing Khelif to box as a female in the Paris Games was “unfair.”
“I don’t see it as fair. Everyone can think what they want, but that’s how I see it,” Lozano told the outlet.
In 2023, the IBA President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.
Lozano explained that, at a boxing event at CAR Blume Sports Center in Madrid, Spain, Khelif was so dangerous that the officials of the event stopped putting Khelif up against women and paired the Algerian with one of Spain’s top male boxers to make it “even.”
“They were doing a retreat at Blume, and we couldn’t put her with anyone. We put [Khelif] with Jennifer Fernandez, and it hurt her. Whoever we put [Khelif] with was injured,” he said.
Imane Khelif is currently beating yet another woman in the ring.
It looks like he’s going to win meaning he is GUARANTEED to win AT LEAST a silver medal.
Shameful. pic.twitter.com/gDekHaNVYk
— Brandubh (@brandubh4) August 6, 2024
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