The Olympic boxing match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif lasted very little: just 45 seconds, then came the definitive stop.
Angela Carini has withdrawn or rather abandoned the fight against Khelif. The Italian is out of the women’s welterweight boxing tournament. Carini decided not to continue after being hit hard twice by the Algerian boxer. Then she burst into tears.
Naturally, this rapid abandonment does nothing but fuel the fire of controversy of the last twenty-four hours. Controversy that arose especially in Italy, where government officials such as ministers Abodi, who had said: “There will not be fair competition from a competitive point of view”, Salvini and Roccella spoke about Imane Khelif. The Algerian boxer had been excluded from the 2023 Women’s Boxing World Championships because she had been found to have high levels of testosterone and for this reason she had been excluded. But the International Olympic Committee ruled that Khelif was eligible to compete in the women’s boxing tournament.