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I do not understand why they killed women's boxing,
IBA President Umar Kremlev said It wasn’t something I intended to do,
Carini told La Gazzetta, ... according to the BBC All this controversy makes me sad,
Carini told the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, according to the BBC They also need to pray and be prayed for because…..the way their lives are set up pure hatred,
They're actually teaching us lessons in human rights in Algeria,
It could have been the match of a lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment.
The IOC’s differing regulations on these matters raise serious questions about both competitive fairness and athletes’ safety,
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.
I wanted to show the whole world what a brave woman Imane Khelif is.
In a newly-unearthed interview filmed ahead of the Games, Khelif opened up about bouncing back from her ban over elevated testosterone levels and declared The IOC is saddened by the abuse that the two athletes are currently receiving
Men don't belong in women's sports
American swimmer Riley Gaines, who has campaigned for women's rights in her sport, wrote on the platform It's not right, it's not right
Abandoning the fight, Italian threw her helmet on the floor, collapsed to her knees in tears and told her coach It's grossly unfair that at the pinnacle of her sporting career, Italian boxer Angela Carini had to concede for her own safety
These two athletes were the victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA,
the IOC said of Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting Given the widespread outrage and distress caused by what we saw today, the scheduled fight should be called off in order for the IOC and relevant sporting bodies to urgently review the situation,
Angela Carini rightly followed her instincts and prioritised her physical safety, but she and other female athletes should not have been exposed to this physical and psychological violence based on their sex.”
Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said It was an incredibly uncomfortable watch for the 46 seconds that it lasted,
Watch this then explain why you're OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment
Women's rights campaigner Ms Rowling tweeted a video of the fight and wrote I was emotional yesterday when she wrote 'I will fight' because the dedication, the head, the character, surely also play a role in these things
This, from my point of view, was not a competition on equal terms
Her prime minister, who was visiting the Olympic Village yesterday, said