Khelif’s lawyer, Nabil Boudi, confirms to the entertainment website Variety that they have filed a lawsuit in which JK Rowling and Elon Musk are among several who have been mentioned. – What we are asking is that the prosecution not only investigate these people, but also whoever it deems necessary, says Boudi to Variety about the lawsuit, which has been delivered to a department for anti-netness at the office of the public prosecutor in Paris. French authorities confirm that they have received the case. Ever since Khelif’s first fight in the Olympics, where opponent Angela Carini gave up after 46 seconds, the attention surrounding the boxer has been enormous. SHORT OLYMPICS: Italian Angela Carini’s Olympics stopped in the first match after she withdrew before the first minute was up. Photo: MOHD RASFAN / AFP Carini said afterwards that she had “never felt such a blow” as the one she received in the nose from Khelif. On Friday, Khelif won Olympic gold in the 66-kilogram class in boxing. More about the boxing dispute: The IBA claims that Imane Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting during the WC last year did not “fulfill the necessary criteria and were found to have a competitive advantage over other female competitors”. The IOC has been clear that they have no confidence in the process and the disputed gender tests that led to the disqualification of the two boxers. According to the news agency DPA, IBA president Umar Kremlev, on video link from Russia, came with a 20-minute long tirade against the IOC and the leader of the committee Thomas Bach on Monday 5 August. – It is sad to see all this. We are destroying sport in this way, said Kremlev, addressing the IOC. – I want to defend and protect all boxers. I’m just here to clean up this mess, he continued. IOC President Thomas Bach, for his part, has been clear about where he stands on the matter. – We have two boxers who were born as women, who grew up as women, who have passports as women and who have competed for many years as women. This is the clear definition of a woman, he said on Saturday. IBA General Secretary Chris Roberts also attended the press conference. He claimed there that the IOC had received all of Iba’s information about the gender tests last year, but had done nothing with him. Roberts added that the IBA is not allowed to publish the results of the disputed tests or to state exactly what kind of tests they were. The IBA has already stated that the tests did not involve testosterone levels. The Russian-dominated IBA has been banned from organizing the boxing tournaments in the Olympics since the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. Both Khelif and Lin won gold. Khelif has previously asked that what she perceives as bullying against them must end. Source: NTB. – The smile of a man X owner Elon Musk republished a photo of Italian Carini on 1 August in which he wrote: – Men do not belong in women’s sports. Rowling has posted several posts on X about the matter. In a message, the Harry Potter author wrote, among other things: – The smile of a man (…) who enjoys the suffering of a woman he has just hit on the head. AUTHOR: JK Rowling is best known for writing the Harry Potter books. Now she has spoken out several times about the boxing case at X. Photo: CARL COURT / AFP Their names are now among those that Khelif has mentioned in the paper that has been sent to the French authorities. At the press conference after the Olympic gold, Khelif was asked what it has been like to compete in the Olympics at the same time that there have been doubts that she is a woman at all. – I am a woman, like all other women. I was born a woman, always lived as a woman and competed as a woman. There is no doubt about it, Khelif said according to the English translation at the press conference. Surprised by lawsuit Jan Petter Saltvedt, news’s sports commentator, had not foreseen this development. – I am a little surprised. I had thought and partly feared that the case would be allowed to subside because she has been an obvious burden for Khelif, he says and continued: – This case is simply so important to her that she is willing to take the principled round on how athletes in her situation end up being hanged out and harassed partly without any documentation having come to light publicly. WATER: Khelif could cheer for gold after winning all the final rounds on points. Photo: MOHD RASFAN / AFP The harassment comes after both Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting were banned from the WC last year by the IBA after they allegedly assessed her as having a male sex chromosome. The IOC has not recognized the process that has led to this exclusion and allowed them to box in the Olympics. Both still with gold. – It is perhaps the greatest achievement in the entire Olympics to manage to win a gold with that kind of negative attention around you. Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting, who was also banned from the WC last year, won gold in the 57-kilogram class on Saturday. Published 14.08.2024, at 15.28 Updated 14.08.2024, at 3.30 p.m
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