Imane Khelif, the Algerian athlete who failed a gender test, expressed that she derives a special sense of victory from the criticism she faces.
I'm a woman like any other woman. I was born a woman, I lived a woman, I competed as a woman, there's no doubt about that. [The detractors] are enemies of success, that is what I call them. And that also gives my success a special taste because of these attacks. With this gold medal, my dignity, my honor is above everything else.
Khelif became the Olympic boxing champion in the wome✤n's 66 kg category by winning the final match against ♒China’s Yang Liu with a unanimous decision from the judges.
In the round of 16, 25-year-old Khelif defeated Italy’s Angela Carini, who chose not to continue the fight just 46 seconds into the first round. In the quar𓃲terfinals, the Algerian triumphed over Hun😼gary's Anna Luka Hamori, and in the semifinals, she overcame Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng.
