What Next - The Olympics Meet the Culture Wars
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and subject to another round of “but is she woman enough?” at the Olympics.
Guest: Rose Eveleth, reporter and host of the podcast Tested, from NPR and CBC.
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| 0:48.6 | On Tuesday, millions of people tuned into the Olympics |
| 0:51.9 | for the well-to-weight semi-finals in women's boxing. |
| 0:54.5 | For nearly a century champions have been crowned at Roland Garros in Paris but never |
| 1:00.8 | quite like this. It boxer, Yayam Suwanofang, went head to head with her Algerian opponent, |
| 1:10.0 | Iman Hulich. |
| 1:11.0 | So at this point, she's done a great job at putting it all aside and just focusing |
| 1:18.3 | on what's in front of her and that's what they have to do. |
| 1:20.7 | They have to just put everything to the side, get in there, execute, and win this fight. |
| 1:25.6 | The fight went three rounds, each round went to Kalif. |
| 1:30.0 | The crowd erupts as her latest combination lands. |
| 1:36.0 | At the end, she got a roar of massive cheers. |
| 1:39.0 | Her opponent even hugged her. |
| 1:41.0 | Tonight, she did her talking in the ring. |
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