Test Results Confirm How Bad the Fact-Checking Was on Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif

The confident claims that the boxer is a woman look even less defensible today.

During the Paris Olympics last summer, I wrote a news article for National Review about Italian boxer Angela Carini quitting 46 seconds into a boxing match against Algeria’s Imane Khelif, one of two competitors in the women’s boxing division who was previously disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association Women’s World Boxing Championships after failing a sex-identification test. The International Boxing Association president said in 2023 that Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting were ineligible for the women’s championship title because DNA tests “proved they had XY chromosomes.” The association’s leader, Umar Kremlev, added that the two athletes “attempted to deceive their ...