Will a woman have to die for this madness to end?
The 2024 Paris Olympics will be forever tarnished, and rightly so, for allowing a boxer who presents himself as male to fight a biological woman.
The boxer, Italian Angela Carini, was brutally hit in the nose before ripping off her helmet and ending the fight after just 46 seconds.
Her rival, Algerian Imane Khelif, towered over her with her bulging biceps.
Khelif failed two “sex tests” in March 2023 and was banned by the International Boxing Association from competing against women.
“This is unfair,” Carini howled.
Yes. That’s the perfect word: unfair.
The 2024 Paris Olympics will be forever tarnished, and rightly so, for allowing a boxer who presents himself as male to fight a biological woman.
Imane Khelif (pictured) failed two “sex tests” in March 2023 and was banned by the International Boxing Association from competing against women.
Women continue to fight for our basic rights, and that includes not being forced to compete against anyone who is not also a biological woman.
So this boxing match – an atrocity, really, a setup, not a fight between equals – was inevitable. Carini could have died.
What she suffered was nothing less, in my opinion, than a televised assault.
“I left to save my life,” she said Thursday. “I couldn’t breathe anymore.”
The proud fighter — “my father taught me to be a warrior,” she said — was on her knees in defeat, crying and heartbroken.
Angela, the women of the world cry with you. And we are outraged.
“I’ve never been hit like that,” Carini said after retiring. “It’s impossible to continue.”
He declined to say anything further about his opponent’s apparent biological advantages, because that, of course, would be the real crime here.
“I’m not in a position to say whether this is right or wrong.”
Let me say it: this is wrong. It’s wrong, it’s wrong, it’s wrong.
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on X: “When will this madness end?”
Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies: “It’s a bloody disgrace. It effectively legalises beating women.”
JK Rowling: “What will it take to stop this madness? A female boxer suffering life-altering injuries? A female boxer dying?”
Jake Paul, honorary boxing coach for Team USA: “This is disgusting. This is a travesty. It doesn’t matter what you believe. This is wrong and it’s dangerous.”
Carini, a 25-year-old welterweight, faced Khelif, a 25-year-old amateur boxer who, according to tests carried out by the International Boxing Association, has XY (male) chromosomes. This would suggest that Khelif was born intersex.
The boxer, Italian Angela Carini (pictured), was brutally hit in the nose before ripping off her helmet and ending the fight after just 46 seconds.
Khelif “identifies” as a woman, but the IBA barred her from competing against biological women at last year’s world championships.
But the International Olympic Committee ousted the IBA from governing its sport, and the IOC in turn authorized Khelif to fight Carini, but did not say how or why, only that Khelif met its “criteria.”
“Federations need to set rules that ensure fairness,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said this week, “but at the same time that everyone can participate if they want to. It’s a difficult balance.”
What do you think of this generic, repetitive nonsense?
We are in an incredibly dangerous realm right now.
This is not about a male-bodied athlete competing against women in non-contact sports like swimming or cycling.
Boxing is a violent and bloody activity that has caused the deaths of athletes in the ring. Even the great Muhammad Ali ended up suffering from Parkinson’s, probably caused by receiving too many blows.
There’s a reason boxers are classified by weight: 17 classes for men and women.
Ross Tucker, a sports science professor, told the Mail this was the equivalent of pitting a 200lb wrestler against someone who weighs 130lb.
“That’s pretty much the difference, in strength and power, between male and female boxers,” she said. “You can’t sanction an advantage that can create harm and say, ‘women should accept that.'”
Except that’s exactly what we’re told all the time.
Whether it’s prisons, sororities, school bathrooms, shelters, high school and college sports (and, now, the Olympics), the message has come through loud and clear: women don’t matter.
After this poor excuse for a fight, Carini’s coach, Emanuele Renzini, said the unspeakable.
‘Many people in Italy tried to call her and say: ‘Please don’t go. He’s a man. He’s dangerous for you.’
But the IOC, like so many institutions corrupted by progressive ideology, is apparently more concerned with being politically correct and not offending gender non-conforming athletes than with protecting women.
Take a look at Carini’s competitor, smiling and strutting like he’s claiming a hard-earned championship.
Raising a fist in victory as a completely crushed Carini looks down, shoulders slumped, before giving her a condescending pat on the back.
Khelif showed no remorse, no shock, no sadness. No sportsmanship, so to speak.
Raising a fist in victory as a completely crushed Carini looks down, shoulders slumped, before giving her a condescending pat on the back.
No: just an insufferable and undeserved pride in defeating a rival who never had a chance, invoking none other than God.
“It’s tough for a first fight,” Khelif said.
Is this person real?
“God willing, I need a second fight here in Paris,” Khelif added.
Me, me, me. Not a thought for Carini, who struggles to hold his battered head high as he suffers a global and completely unnecessary humiliation.
His hard work, his sacrifices, the chance to make his lifelong dream come true, all of it fell apart in 46 seconds. Yet Khelif is gloating.
Incredibly, at the time of writing, the IOC is allowing this disgrace of an athlete to fight another biological woman on Saturday.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse: Olympic officials now say Khelif is the real victim here, suffering “abuse” and “discrimination.”
What an absolute disgrace the IOC is. They have failed every female athlete, every coach and fan, every girl currently training to one day make her mark.
Who within the IOC will oppose this contempt?
Or will it take another female athlete risking her life, and possibly losing it, for sanity to prevail?