Paris 2024 Boxing, Angela Carini abandons the match against Imane Khelif, kneels and cries. “I took very strong blows”

Paris 2024 Boxing, Angela Carini abandons the match against Imane Khelif, kneels and cries: “I took very strong blows”

Angela Carini is in tears after withdrawing after a few seconds in the match against transgender boxer Khelif in the 2024 Paris Olympics. After two punches thrown by the Algerian, the 25-year-old Italian preferred to leave: “I took some really hard hits, I didn’t feel like going on.” And again: “Irregular match? I’m nobody to judge.”

Paris 2024, Carini: “I stepped into the ring for my father, I gave it my all”

“I didn’t feel like fighting anymore after the first minute. I started to feel a strong pain in my nose. It’s not like me to give up, but precisely because I couldn’t do it I said enough and ended the match”, Angela Carini added. “I got into the ring for my father, last Olympics my father was dying, this was my Olympics and I wanted to run the last kilometre – she added -. If I stopped, I did it only for my family”.

Paris 2024, Meloni: “Match Carini was not on equal terms”

“Carini? I have not agreed with the IOC on this matter for years. I didn’t agree with the choice of 2021, I don’t agree today, I thank Angela Carini for how she fought even if we couldn’t see her, we only saw small flashes… Withdrawal? I’m even more sorry this wasn’t a fair game”. This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni upon her arrival at Casa Italia, speaking about Angela Carini’s boxing match with Algerian Imane Khelif who had been excluded from the final of the last World Championships due to excessively high testosterone levels, but was nevertheless admitted to the Olympic Games.

“In 2021, when the IOC changed the regulation on this matter, we presented a motion to point out the consequences that this could have, because it is a fact that with the levels of testosterone present in the blood of the Algerian athlete, the race does not seem fair at the start.. There were also profiles related to safety and I think that we must also be careful in trying not to discriminate, to discriminate, because for years I have been trying to explain that some theses taken to the extreme risk impacting especially on women’s rights”, the Premier underlined. “I think that athletes who have generic male characteristics should not be admitted to women’s competitions and not because we want to discriminate against someone but to protect the right of athletes to compete on equal terms. I thank Angela Carini for how she fought. I was moved yesterday when she wrote ‘I will fight’ because in these things dedication, the head, the character and competing on equal terms also count and this was not”, concluded Giorgia Meloni.

Paris 2024: Salvini, ‘shame on those who gave the OK to the match’

“A slap in the face to the credibility of the Olympics”, Matteo Salvini had instead said in the hours leading up to the match. Who now returns to the attack with a post on X. “‘He hits too hard, it’s not fair’. Well done Angela, you did well! Our athlete had to withdraw against Imane Khelif, before bursting into tears for so many sacrifices gone up in smoke. A truly un-Olympic scene: shame on those bureaucrats who allowed a match that was evidently not on equal terms. Everyone in Italy and around the world noticed, except the distracted commentators of Rai. A hug to Angela, go!”.

Paris 2024, Sasso (Lega): “Very violent punches in Carini hurt all Italians”

Solidarity with the Italian athlete Angela Carini, victim of the ideological madness woke at the Olympics. These are very violent punches that hurt not only Angela’s face, but also the many Italians who witnessed an unworthy show. It was not a competition on equal terms and everyone knows this: the rights of a woman, an athlete, an Italian were trampled upon. Whether the Algerian athlete is ‘intersex’ or whatever else does not matter, she had male chromosomes and hormones and should not have competed, as has happened in other competitions where she was excluded”. This is what Lega MP Rossano Sasso, group leader in the Science, Sport, Culture and Education commission, said. “After polluted rivers that cause discomfort in athletes, unwelcoming and uncomfortable rooms in the name of green ideology, we were missing abuse and injustice during the competition in the name of inclusiveness. These Olympics are increasingly stained with ideology and little with Olympic spirit. All Italian athletes should protest and those who represent them and have not opened their mouths to defend Angela Carini should be ashamed”, concludes the Lega member.

Paris 2024, Gasparri: “Solidarity with Carini, for some the opening ceremony continues”

“Total solidarity with Angela Carini. And deep blame to those who do not carry out the necessary checks. Strong hope that the Italian sports authorities will shed light on a disturbing story. Perhaps for some the opening ceremony is still going on. We understand each other”. This was stated by the president of the Forza Italia senators, Maurizio Gasparri.

Paris 2024: Roccella, ‘solidarity with Carini, it is a victim of an ideology’

“All our solidarity with Angela Carini, victim of an ideology that hits her and with her all women. Today is a black page for women, it is a black page for sport, and also for the truth. A truth that even this morning many have tried to mask, claiming that Imane Khelif has ‘always been a woman’, as she is ‘intersex’”. The Minister for Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities Eugenia Roccella wrote this on Facebook. “It would also be good to clarify this: the person who today unfairly won a competition that had nothing sporting about it, is a person with male chromosomes, with a male body and physicality. Intersex people, who are born with ambiguity in their sexual characteristics, are ‘assigned’ to the female gender with various criteria, including the fact that, if necessary, it is easier to reconstruct a female genitalia than a male one – he underlines – To believe, as the IOC did, that the anagraphic assignment to the female gender is enough to make a boxing match between a man and a woman fair, is unacceptable”. “We can only hope that the tears that filled Angela Carini’s eyes after the first few punches can be useful to other athletes, and clarify the ideas of those who still pretend not to see the new forms of injustice to which ideology risks subjecting women and our entire society”, he concludes.

Paris 2024: Alemanno, ‘Carini was right to tell everyone to go to hell’

“Angela Carini did well to tell everyone to go to hell. It was a shameful scam, worthy of Macron’s Olympics. Now Italy must make its voice heard: we must no longer participate in international competitions where gender distinctions are not clear. Our athletes must no longer be exposed to massacres of this kind. The Government must make its voice heard and Parliament, if necessary, must pass laws that guarantee the fairness of sports competitions”, says Gianni Alemanno, National Secretary of the Independence Movement.