AdvertisementItalian boxer Angela Carini has bidding affliction for her accomplishments afterward her brusque abandonment of her Paris 2024 Olympic bender adjoin Algeria's Imane Khelif
The action concluded afterwards aloof 46 seconds
Carini accepted to actuality affronted about the end of her Olympic dream but apologised for not afraid easily with Khelif afterwards the match
"It wasn't article I advised to do," Carini explained, "Actually, I appetite to apologise to her and anybody else. I was affronted because my Olympics had gone up in smoke." Despite the altercation surrounding Khelif's participation, with the Algerian boxer accepting been butterfingers from aftermost year's Women's World Championships for declining to accommodated accommodation criteria, Carini bidding account for the IOC's accommodation to acquiesce her to compete
"All this altercation makes me sad," Carini told Italian bi-weekly Gazzetta dello Sport
"I'm apologetic for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I account that decision." The 25-year-old Italian boxer dedicated her accommodation to stop the fight, emphasizing the accent of self-preservation. "It could accept been the bout of a lifetime, but I had to bottle my activity as able-bodied in that moment," Carini told BBC Sport
The International Boxing Association (IBA), which conducted the accommodation tests aftermost year, accepted that Khelif did not accommodated the appropriate criteria
However, the IOC has stood by its accommodation to acquiesce her to compete. IOC agent Mark Adams stated, "The Algerian boxer was built-in female, was registered female, lived her activity as a female, boxed as a female, has a changeable passport."