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Olympic Boxers Reignite Debate Over Inclusion in Women’s Sports

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When Imane Khelif of Algeria defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in just 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics, she should have been celebrating her advancing to the quarterfinals. Instead, Khelif found herself at the center of a firestorm focused on her gender. Because even though she was born a woman, has lived her life as a woman, and was verified by the International Olympic Committee as a woman. There were loud voices spreading the misinformation that a man had just beaten up a woman in an Olympic boxing match. It’s a familiar debate that has raged at different points in the modern sports world. About who is and isn’t eligible to take part in women’s athletics. And a fight that hits even harder against women of color. So today, ESPN’s Katie Barnes joins the show to explain how the history of eligibility in women’s athletics is tied to a complicated science that doesn’t lend itself to simple regulations. And to explore why we keep weaponizing gender when it comes to women’s sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Katie Barnes, tell me what you saw when Algerian boxer I

0:05.1

Amankalee faced Angela Karini of Italy in the ring last week.

0:09.9

I actually was not watching the fight live.

0:13.6

Women's Boxing, especially during the Olympics.

0:17.3

You know, I tend to focus on events with Americans,

0:20.7

I'm not gonna lie about that.

0:22.4

I, like probably many people, saw clips of it online,

0:26.4

and then I did go back and watch it in full.

0:28.6

What I saw was a fight that lasted 46 seconds. I saw a man cleave catch karini in the face once and she stopped the fight to go over to her

0:45.9

corner she got her head gear fixed and then she came back into the center of the

0:50.4

ring and met Kalif and Kalef caught her again more square this time

0:54.7

right in the nose with a hard jab and after that punch Kereini raised her hand and withdrew from the fight.

1:06.7

But this moment sort of takes a life in his own, right?

1:09.4

Kaliv defeats her opponent,

1:11.1

advances to the quarterfinals,

1:13.0

and the moment should, you know,

1:14.9

at worst, have been something that a lot of people

1:16.8

pay attention to, and at best is a joyous moment

1:19.7

for Caliph and Algeria.

1:21.2

But what exactly happened instead?

1:24.0

I think the only word that can really describe the fallout is Firestorm.

1:30.0

All of a sudden there were tweets, there was just an enormous amount of people

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