Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif said that former President Donald Trump's false statements about Khelif's gender will be included in the investigation behind the online harassment suit Khelif filed last week, according to a report from Variety.The lawsuit, filed on Friday with a special unit of the public prosecutor's office in Paris, stems from false statements that spread online about Khelif's gender identity after the Algerian boxer defeated Italian boxer Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the match and told reporters after the fight that she had "never felt a punch like this."The match sparked questions about the gender of Khelif, who last year was blocked from competing in the World Championships after failing an unspecified sex-verification test by the International Boxing Association (IBA).
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has cast doubt on the validity on the test, which also disqualified Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting from competing in the 2023 World Championship. IBA has also been stripped as boxing's governing body by the IOC.Khelif claimed gold in the women's welterweight Olympic division on Friday, winning Algeria's first medal in women's boxing.
Yu-ting won gold in the women's flyweight division on Saturday.The harassment lawsuit alleges an "aggravated cyber-harassment" against Khelif, according to a statement from the boxer's lawyer, Nabil Boudi, who was quoted by the Associated Press. Variety reported on Tuesday that the complaint was filed against X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, which means under French law that it was filed against unknown persons.
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