Imane Khelif files complaint due to abuse over gender at Paris Olympics

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Imane Khelif files complaint due to abuse over gender at Paris Olympics​

Olympic gold-medal-winning boxer Imane Khelif, who endured intense scrutiny about her gender throughout the Paris Games, has filed a formal legal complaint in which she says she was the victim of online abuse. In a statement posted Sunday to Instagram, Khelif's attorney, Nabil Boudi, said Khelif, who won the Olympic women's 66-kilogram boxing title on Friday, asked his legal firm to file a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office on her behalf. "Ms. Khelif contacted the firm, which filed a complaint yesterday for acts of aggravated cyber harassment with the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor's office." The Paris prosecutor's office told ESPN it had not yet received the complaint, although it could come as early as Monday. Boudi added he asked for the criminal investigation to determine who initiated the "misogynistic, racist and sexist campaign" against Khelif. "The unfair harassment suffered by the boxing champion will remain the biggest stain of these Olympic Games," Boudi added. Khelif is allowed to fight under the International Olympic Committee's guidelines on gender eligibility,

Fans have embraced Khelif in Paris even as she faced an extraordinary amount of scrutiny from world leaders, major celebrities and others who have questioned her eligibility or falsely claimed she was a man. It has thrust her into a larger divide over changing attitudes toward gender identity and regulations in sports. It stems from the Russian-dominated International Boxing Association's decision to disqualify Khelif and fellow two-time Olympian Li Yu-ting of Taiwan from last year's world championships, claiming both failed an eligibility test for women's competition that IBA officials have declined to answer basic questions about. "For eight years, this has been my dream, and I'm now the Olympic champion and gold medalist," Khelif said through an interpreter after her gold-medal bout Friday against Yang Liu of China. Khelif has faced scrutiny from a range of public figures and a significant number of social media users. Former U.S. President Donald Trump and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling both weighed in with criticism and false speculation about men competing with women in sports.

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Lin Yu-ting joins Imane Khelif with Olympic gold amid gender dispute​

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won a gold medal in the women's featherweight division at the Paris Olympics on Saturday night, following Imane Khelif's lead a day earlier with a glittering response to the intense scrutiny faced by both fighters inside the ring and around the world over misconceptions about their womanhood. Lin beat Julia Szeremeta of Poland 5:0 in the final at Roland Garros, capping her four-fight unbeaten run through Paris by ensuring that Taiwan's first Olympic boxing medal is golden.

On Friday, Khelif won Algeria's first women's boxing medal with a decisive victory in her own final, beating Yang Liu of China. Both fighters persevered through an avalanche of criticism and uninformed speculation about their sex during the Paris tournament to deliver the best performances of their boxing careers. Lin won all four of her bouts 5:0, even if she didn't win every round on every judge's card as Khelif did.

World leaders, celebrities and millions of online critics either questioned both boxers' eligibility to be in women's competitions or falsely claimed they were men, forcing both women to take unwanted starring roles in a debate over changing attitudes toward gender identity and safety regulation in sports. Both fighters were disqualified last year from the world championships organized by the International Boxing Association, a Russian-dominated governing body that has been banished from the Olympics since 2019.

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