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Olympic Champion Imane Khelif Denies Claims of Retirement From Boxing
Imane Khelif faces ongoing scrutiny over gender eligibility yet remains determined to compete in the 2028 Olympics, embodying resilience amid a divisive global debate.
- On Wednesday, Imane Khelif denied retirement reports, writing on her Facebook page, `I would like to make it clear to the public that the reports of my retirement from boxing are false` and accused former manager Nasser Yesfah of betraying her trust.
- The IBA's disqualification led to an IOC review that cleared Khelif to compete in Paris last year, where she won Olympic gold amid controversy.
- Beginning this year, the PCR genetic testing rule requires athletes over 18 to confirm sex at birth, and Khelif skipped the Netherlands tournament shortly after World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing.
- The IOC has said the Olympic title will stand, even as calls emerged to strip her Olympic gold, though the IOC rejected revisiting the Paris result, and Khelif has not competed since her win, symbolizing the global gender eligibility clash.
- Khelif says she remains committed to training between Algeria and Qatar, having confirmed earlier this year plans to compete at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and move up a weight class.
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Olympic champion Imane Khelif – 66kg boxing – came out of silence on August 20 after statements from her former manager in the press claiming that she had retired from sports.
Imane Khelif contradicted the words of her former manager saying that she had put her career on a break. The boxer ensures to train between Qatar and Algeria "in view of the upcoming appointments".
In an interview with the French newspaper Nice-Matin is the former manager of Imane Khelif, the 26-year-old Algerian boxer who won gold at the Paris Olympics 2024 in the Welter weight category. Khelif's participation in the Games was accompanied by controversy and attacks because of his intersexuality: the athlete is in fact hyper-androgynous, i.e. he has an excessive production of testosterone that gives them aesthetic masculine characters.
After the storm at the Olympics and the exclusion from the World Championships on the basis of the test of "gender eligibility" carried out in 2023, the Algerian boxer would have decided to give up everything
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