Ring to Respect: PARIS, August 3 – Luca Anna Hamori, a welterweight boxer from Hungary, said on Saturday that she lost to Imane Khelif, an Algerian who has been at the center of a storm over her qualifying for the Paris Olympics.
The judges gave Khelif a unanimous decision win over Hamori in the Olympic quarterfinals, and Hamori said she had no issues.
Hamori told reporters after the match, “I can’t say a single bad word about my opponent.” He then hugged Khelif.
“These past few days have been rough for everyone. That woman said, “I respect her, I don’t think badly of her, and this is not her fault.”
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“That’s how things are now; things might change in the future.” Things have not wrecked my Olympics at all.
Khelif, who won a silver medal at the 2002 World Championships, and Lin Yu-ting, a Taiwanese featherweight, have been in the news at the Paris Games because of a gender row that has been all over the news and has been talked about a lot on social media.
In 2023, they broke rules set by the International Boxing Association (IBA), which say that athletes with XY chromosomes can’t compete in women’s sports. It wasn’t clear from the IBA why they failed.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) gave the boxers permission to fight in Paris, and it has never been proven that they have a genetic disease that causes a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD).
After Italian boxer Angela Carini quit her round-of-16 match against Khelif after taking a lot of hard blows, Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, brought up the problem with Thomas Bach, the head of the IOC.
“NECESSARY DECISIONS”
In a joint statement with Hamori and Balazs Furjes, Hungary’s IOC official, the Hungarian National Olympic Committee (NOC) called for “consequences” after the fight on Saturday.
“These consequences will have to be duly evaluated after the Paris Games,” the body said.
“As long-time and loyal members of the international Olympic family, we are sure that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will make the right decisions and the decisions that need to be made.”
“Naturally, the Hungarian Olympic family will duly participate in such evaluation and decision-making procedure.”
The IOC did not answer right away when asked for a statement.
The person named Furjes said that Hamori would always fight Khelif.
When asked if he thought it was a fair fight, he said, “As loyal members of the international Olympic family, we are 100 percent sure that the International Olympic Committee will make the right decisions.”
“The brave thing that Luca did just showed us that we Hungarians are always ready to fight.” If things get tough, we’re not afraid of them and are ready to fight even when things get tough.
Hamori said: “I wish good luck to my opponent and the others in the finals.”
