Gold medal-winning British boxer Nicola Adams has slammed the ‘unfair and dangerous’ decision to allow Algerian boxer Imane Khelif to fight in the Olympics.
A massive row broke out at the Paris games this week after Khelif, who is believed to have lived since birth as a female, fought Italian rival Angela Carini in a bout that lasted just 46 seconds.
The 25-year-old, one of two athletes thrown out of last year’s world championships in New Delhi after failing to meet gender eligibility criteria, is now eyeing up a medal after progressing to the quarter-finals.
Taking to social media on Friday morning, Ms Adams wrote: ‘I stand with Angela Carini.
‘After years of fighting for women’s boxing to even exist in the Olympics and then all the training they go through to get there it was hard to watch another fighter be forced [to] give up on her Olympic dreams.
Team GB’s boxing star Nicola Adams, who won gold in London 2012, made the statement on social media on Friday morning
A massive row broke out at the Paris games this week after Khelif (left), who has lived since birth as a female, fought Italian rival Angela Carini in a bout that lasted just 46 seconds