Imane Khelif was given a champion’s welcome by a legion of adoring fans as she flaunted her Olympic gold medal in a bus parade around her home city. The bus slowed to a crawl as the throng pressed in, with thousands of mobile phones pointed up to snap an image of the boxer. Khelif claimed
With an outpouring of fans greeting her as she arrived in her hometown on Friday, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Imane Khelif extolled Algeria for backing its athletes and said she hoped to again make her country proud in the future. The football-obsessed North African country has given Khelif the celebrity treatment since she returned to
The coach of controversial Olympic Gold medalist Imane Khelif has let slip that a ‘problem with chromosomes’ prompted boxing chiefs to ban her from women’s competition last year. The International Boxing Association (IBA) disqualified her after conducting medical tests which suggested the powerful welterweight was ‘biologically male’. But the Algerian brushed aside all opposition after
Algeria’s Imane Khelif will fight China’s Yang Liu in the 66kg gold medal match today. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images) The 2024 Summer Olympics are nearly over, and the boxing finals are here. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been dominating both in the ring and in headlines, and today she’s set to face China’s Yang