PARIS (Reuters) — Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the female boxer thrown into the center of a gender issue at the Paris Games, made a declaration about her womanhood after defeating China’s Yang Liu to win the welterweight Olympic gold medal on Friday, sending her newfound fans into a frenzy.
Khelif, a silver medalist at the 2022 World Championships, and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting have been at the center of a gender controversy in Paris that has dominated headlines and sparked heated debate on social media.
Khelif, who won by unanimous decision, is the first Algerian woman to win an Olympic boxing championship.
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