Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif threatened a lawsuit towards 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 Workforce Algeria competes towards Anna Luca Hámori of Workforce Hungary, not pictured, within the ladies’s 66kg quarter-final boxing match throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the North Paris Enviornment, in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 3, 2024. Khelif received the match and superior to the semifinals. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu by way of Getty Photos)
“We’ll meet with the French journalist in courtroom,” the Algerian athlete mentioned, 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 mentioned that with no correct medical examination, the incorrect gender is assigned at start.
It was Khelif’s first remarks concerning the report since its launch. Fox Information Digital reached out to Khelif’s attorneys however didn’t hear again.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) advised Fox Information Digital it understood that Khelif was making ready a lawsuit towards the journalist.
“We perceive that Imane Khelif has taken authorized motion towards people who commented on her state of affairs throughout the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, and can be making ready a lawsuit in response to the newest reporting,” the IOC mentioned. “The IOC won’t remark whereas authorized motion is ongoing, or on media reviews about unverified paperwork whose origin can’t be confirmed.”
The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation President Umar Kremlev additionally responded to the report.
Imane Khelif of Workforce Algeria celebrates victory towards Anna Luca Hámori of Workforce 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 Enviornment on Aug. 3, 2024. (Richard Pelham/Getty Photos)
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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 towards a girl. Checks have once more confirmed that Imane Khelif is certainly a person,” Kremlev mentioned final week. “At the moment, 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 staff each verbally and in writing, apologize to the worldwide boxing group.
“Thomas Bach himself bears direct accountability for this, as he personally lobbied for this to occur – for males to compete towards ladies. On behalf of all boxers on this planet, 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, in your official apology.”
Khelif was embroiled in controversy earlier than and all through the Paris Olympics after reviews surfaced over a failed gender take a look at that led to a disqualification on the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation World Championships. The Algerian Olympic Committee mentioned 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 concerning the Khelif controversy.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif reacts prior the match towards 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 Enviornment in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 3, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“I’ve seen that there are a lot of politicians and presidents who converse with no supply, and it’s one thing unusual, as a result of they make statements with no foundation, with out actuality,” Khelif mentioned, by way of The Telegraph.
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Khelif has already filed lawsuits towards a number of individuals who known as the boxer a person, together with “Harry Potter” creator J. Ok. Rowling.
Fox Information’ Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
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