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Paris, France—One of the boxers at the centre of a gender controversy at the Olympics comfortably reached the quarter-finals Friday, as fellow fighters and public figures weighed into the furor.
The IOC stripped the IBA of responsibility for organizing the Paris Games boxing over financial, ethical and governance issues. “All the controversy made me sad and I’m sorry for my opponent, too. It’s nothing to do with her. She was here like me to fight,” Carini told the Gazzetta dello Sport. But Tunisian coach Samir Khlifi, speaking after his boxer Khouloud Hlimi lost in a bout in Lin’s class, called the IBA decision to disqualify Khelif last year “political.”
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