Quotes
I need hardly say if we start acting on suspicions against every athlete of whatever, then we go down a very bad route,
I am not a medical person who should say if Lin could compete or not here but when the tests show that he or she has the Y chromosome she could not be here.”
Even worse. She is from Algeria. In Algeria it is illegal to be gay. The idea they would send a gay or trans Olympian is insane."
Cuban, a Shark Tank investor and former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, replied to a clip of Trump's remarks on X, formerly Twitter, late Saturday and wrote Have a lot of people texting me over Imane Khelif. Personally I don't think she has done anything to 'cheat'. I thinks it's the way she was born & that's out of her control. The fact that she has been beating by 9 females before says it all."
On Wednesday, Broadhurst spoke out about Khelif, writing on X It wasn't something I intended to do,
Carini said, ... according to the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport Now all you have to do is look at the boxers. This young girl from Italy, a champion boxer, she got hit so hard she didn't know what the hell hit her."
Trump, the GOP presidential nominee who has been critical of Khelif, said at a rally in Atlanta on Saturday I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN'S SPORTS!"
The former president shared a clip of Khelif and Carini's bout on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday and wrote President Trump has been unequivocally clear that he will NOT stand for men competing in women's sports—an insane and unfair reality that has been allowed to transpire because of Radical Left politicians like [Vice President] Kamala Harris."
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Newsweek in an article published Saturday morning Every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination."
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended its decision to allow Lin and Khelif to complete, writing in a statement on Thursday IBA remains committed in ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we absolutely condemn the inconsistencies in eligibility to compete in the boxing competition held in the Paris Olympic Games 2024,
the boxing organization said in another statement released on Thursday It's a person that transitioned,
the former president said of Khelif I know that all the Taiwanese people are behind me”.
Speaking to reporters after her winning bout, Lin, who said Those tests are not legitimate tests. So there was indeed a letter, I can confirm that,
said IOC spokesperson Mark Adams First off, it won’t surprise you to know I’m going to repeat the line that those tests are not legitimate tests,
There’s a whole range of reasons why we won't deal with this,
We absolutely do not understand why any organization would put a boxer at risk with what could bring a potential serious injury within the ‘Field of Play’ (FOP),
The testing, the method of the testing, the idea of the testing which happened kind of overnight. None of it is legitimate and this does not deserve any response,
Those tests are not legitimate tests. The tests themselves, the process of the tests, the ad hoc nature of the tests are not legitimate,
IOC spokesperson Mark Adams told a press conference How are they targeted for this to come about and is it fair and right that two individuals are targeted in this way.... by a federation that is completely discredited?"
Yu-ting is great!"
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te wrote on his Facebook page after the boxer's victory on Saturday that sent her into the last four of her featherweight division at the Paris Games