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Hungarian boxer shares insulting posts against Algeria’s Imane Khelif before match

News Desk

Aug 03

The controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has intensified, with Hungarian boxer Luca Hamori shared insulting posts on Instagram before their match.

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Later, she was forced to remove them from her social media account after being heavily criticized.

The Algerian Olympic Committee strongly protested against the issue and wrote a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stating, “The Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee concludes to the knowledge of national and international public opinion, that follows the official complaint submitted today by our Olympic body to the International Olympic Committee, regarding the violation and serious violation of sport ethics and affecting the Olympic Charter, in the person of our champion Imane Khelif, by one of the participants in the boxing tournament for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 The International Olympic Committee has issued a final apology to violators with an order to delete every post that concerns our heroine Iman Khalif.”

“We reserve the right to prosecute everyone who participated in the heinous campaign against the heroine Imane Khelif. Good luck to our heroine, and long live.”

The fight between Algerian woman boxer Imane and Hungary’s Luca Hamori is scheduled today. In the first fight, Imane defeated Angela Carini in just 46 seconds after the Italian conceded, crying on her knees in the ring while refusing to shake her opponent’s hands.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) disqualified Imane based on an unspecified test. But the Olympics committee has clarified that she is a biological woman but born with “elevated levels of testosterone.”

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