Forty-six seconds was all it took for Angela Carini to throw in the towel — and those 46 seconds have thrown gasoline on the firestorm over gender and fairness in women’s athletics.
Imane Khelif of Algeria and Angela Carini are seen during their Olympics boxing match on Thursday.on her own fight during the Paris Olympics — and those 46 seconds have thrown gasoline on the firestorm over gender and fairness in women’s athletics.
In much of the world, this condition is often discovered soon after birth. But if it goes undetected, a family would have no reason to doubt the appearance of a child’s external anatomy — that is, until puberty, when massive amounts of testosterone turn that seemingly prepubescent girl into a post-pubescent male., but we do know that the Algerian boxer failed a test at the World Boxing Championships in 2023.
“It means they failed a genetic test,” Wright explained, “and the only way to do that is by having a Y chromosome” — that is, by being a biological male. That’s why other competitions test female boxers for testosterone levels, the same as they would check for other performance-enhancing drugs.Here at home, on the same day the Olympics furor broke, the Biden-Harris administration’s rewrite of Title IX took effect in the 24 states that have not won preliminary injunctions to block the law’s implementation.
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