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Congratulations Imane Khelif

Imane Khelif won gold in boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. I am happy that she managed to win, even while under harassment from some of the most powerful people in the world.

I also see to my happiness that her lawyer, Nabil Boudi, has filed a complaint about her harassment: Imane Khelif files legal complaint for harassment over gender controversy

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Comments

  1. Katydid says

    I read something that resonated with me: ALL athletes who can compete at Olympic levels are genetically different from the average person: Michael Phelps has a HUGE “wingspan” and a streamlined body. Power lifters have muscles the average person will never be able to build. Gymnasts have both flexibility and strength that the average person just doesn’t have.

    There’s a video on Youtube that’s a couple years old, of a Belgian woman shot-putter who stepped in to do hurdles when her team’s hurdlers were too injured to compete. She’s a great shot-putter, but if you compare her bodytype to the bodytype of the hurdlers, there was no comparison; it was like comparing a mountain to a whippet. She competed cleanly, but the other competitors were long past the finish line while she was still gingerly stepped across the hurdles. Her strong, tall, heavily-muscled body was the product of her genes and her training. None of the hurdlers could have hefted a shot put the way she does. They’re genetics are different.

    I notice there’s not a lot of hullaballoo about Britney Griner–who looks like a man, talks like a man, is taller than other women.

  2. rorschach says

    It’s all bullshit Kristjan, I would point you to Lauren Jackson, greatest Aussie Basketballer, like, 3 meters tall, might as well be part of the Avengers, how is it fair that she plays women’s sport?