Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on the Olympic boxing match: "A disgrace"

The West Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on the Olympic boxing match: "A disgrace" Dominik Göttker • 6 hours • 2 minutes reading time It was a boxing match that will be talked about for a long time. Not because it was so attractive or even exciting in sporting terms. No, it was a fight that was unequal from the start. On Thursday evening, the Italian Angela Carini fought against the Algerian Imane Khelif at the Olympic Games in Paris. Angela Carini had to give up the fight after just 46 seconds. She let her opponent win in tears. The special thing: There is debate about Imane Khelif's gender. She was excluded from the boxing world championships because she had failed a gender test due to high testosterone levels. At the Olympics, however, she was allowed to box and after just a few moments hit her opponent so hard that she no longer felt able to continue the fight. Harry Potter author complains about Olympic decision "A disgrace," said J.K. Rowling, author of the world-famous "Harry Potter" novels. "A young boxer was stripped of everything she worked hard for and trained for because you allowed a man to step into the ring with her. You are a disgrace, your 'protective measures' are a joke and Paris 2024 will be forever marred by the brutal injustice to Carini," Rowling wrote to Kirsty Burrows, head of the Safe Sport Unit at the IOC. And Rowling is not the only one to criticize the Olympic Committee's decision to allow transgender boxers to compete in women's competitions. "What do I think about a biological man boxing against a woman at the Olympic Games? I could explain it in detail now, but I don't feel like it. I'll make it short and sweet: Stop this shit," said former world champion Regina Halmich in an Instagram video. The fight between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif seems far from over, despite the Italian's withdrawal.