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It was a sickening, heartbreaking sight.
Just half a minute after her Olympic fight against the Algerian boxer, Italian Angela Carini was punched so hard in the face that she gave up the fight.
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Imane Khelif punched Angela Carina so hard in the face that she gave up the fightCredit: AFP
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Angela cried as she revealed she was in such pain from the punch that she feared for her lifeCredit: Twitter
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Piers says Khelif has an unfair advantage
Later, crying in front of the cameras, she revealed that the blow hurt her so much that she feared for her life if she continued.
Normally, such a dramatic early victory would have resulted in the victorious boxer, Imane Khelif, being greeted by the crowd and hugged by her defeated opponent.
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But this was very different.
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The crowd was very quiet, with some whistling, and Carini could be heard muttering ‘That’s not right!’ as the referee raised Khelif’s hand, before she turned her back and walked away as Khelif tried to hug her, the distraught loser then burst into tears.
The reason for Carina’s sadness was soon clarified: Imane Khelif is not a biological woman.
She was banned by the International Boxing Association from competing in the last Women’s World Championships because she failed the tests to meet the ‘eligibility criteria’ to take part in the women’s competition.
In other words, the IBA has concluded that she is not a woman, and its president, Umar Kremlev, confirmed to the Russian news agency TASS that it was ‘proven’ that Khelif has an XY chromosome as opposed to women who have an XX chromosome.
This is a more complex case than the series of embarrassing transgender scandals that have engulfed women’s sports in recent years.
Khelif reportedly has a condition called Swyer syndrome which means he has some female reproductive organs, but also much higher levels of testosterone than women.
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As a result, she has a superior physicality compared to females, which can be seen in her tall, strong frame.
In other words, she has an unfair advantage.
And that’s why there was such a furious response, led by JK Rowling, Elon Musk and Martina Navratilova, to the tapes of Carini’s resignation after being punched in the face.
No one can say I didn’t warn them this might happen.
Four years ago, when I was still a morning TV presenter, I asked Lisa Nandy, the new UK Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, a simple question.
Would she be happy, I said, if Usain Bolt or Floyd Mayweather, if they chose to identify as women, competed in the Olympics against real women?
When she blurted out and tried to avoid answering the question by saying there should be a ‘commission in sport’ to determine such things, I replied:
‘You don’t need a commission to decide whether it’s right or fair for Floyd Mayweather to identify as a woman and then fight female boxers. It’s just common sense.’
It’s not fair or equal
At that moment, Nandy went on the offensive and spent ten minutes accusing me of being rubbish, talking nonsense, being outrageous, creating more heat than light, pitting one group of people against another and attacking trans people.
Blah blah blah.
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Angela broke down in tears in the ring Credit: AFP
This kind of insane reaction is the default position of any politician when they don’t want to answer a question, and especially for Labor politicians who deal with trans issues because they are all so terrified of offending the woke brigade among their voter base.
But Nandy’s refusal to give me a simple answer to a simple question, albeit one of huge consequence, was very telling and, frankly, very worrying given that she is now the sports minister of this country.
It is an obvious, indisputable, medical and scientific truth that someone born with male biology of any kind has a clear physical advantage over biological females.
That’s why we keep the sexes separate at the Olympics.
Otherwise, women would barely win a single medal.
To pretend otherwise is to be completely deluded or deliberately dishonest.
I believe, as former and possibly the next US President, Donald Trump, said earlier this week, that all trans athletes should be banned from competing in women’s sports.
Not because I’m transphobic; I have always been very public in my support for the rights of trans people to the same fairness and equality that the rest of us enjoy.
No, it’s because it’s just not fair or equal.
The same applies to athletes born with XY chromosomes which also give them a physiological advantage over biological females.
This does not mean that I think they should be completely banned from elite sports.
That would be discriminatory.
What happened in that Olympic boxing ring must not be repeated
Instead, they should either compete against men, as most have done in the past, or in a new open category.
But what happened in that Olympic boxing ring must not be repeated, or the spirit and integrity of the Games will be irrevocably tarnished.
As Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said in support of Carini:
‘From my side, this was not an equal competition. I think that athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not participate in women’s competitions.
‘Not because we want to discriminate against someone, but to protect the rights of female athletes to compete under equal conditions. We have to pay attention, in an attempt not to discriminate, to actually discriminate.’
She has a right. And we all know he’s right.
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Khelif was banned from last year’s World Cup after failing tests to meet the ‘eligibility criteria’ to take part in the women’s competitionCredit: Getty
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