Algeria’s Khelif delights newfound devotees with assertion win at Paris Games

PARIS –
Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the feminine boxer thrust into the middle of a gender dispute on the Paris Games, made a press release on her womanhood after beating China’s Yang Liu to take the welterweight Olympic gold medal, sending her newfound devotees into delirium on Friday.

Khelif, silver medalist on the 2022 World Championships, and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting have been within the highlight as a part of a gender dispute in Paris that has dominated headlines and been the topic of a lot dialogue on social media platforms.

Khelif, who received by unanimous choice, is the primary Algerian girl to earn an Olympic boxing title and the primary boxer from her nation to say gold since Hocine Soltani at Atlanta 1996. Women’s boxing has been within the Olympics since London 2012.