You're enemies - Algerian boxer Khelif blasts critics after winning gold

Khelif, who won by unanimous determination connected Friday, is the archetypal Algerian pistillate to gain an Olympic boxing title.

Algeria’s Imane Khelif connected Friday bushed China’s Yang Liu to assertion the welterweight golden medal of the 2024 Olympic Games successful Paris.

The pistillate boxer who was thrown into the centre of a sex quality astatine the Paris Games successful crushing manner sent her new-found devotees into delirium with her performance.

Khelif who was a metallic medallist astatine the 2022 World Championships and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting had been successful the spotlight arsenic portion of a sex quality successful Paris.

This had dominated the headlines and had been the taxable of overmuch treatment connected societal media platforms.

Khelif, who won by unanimous determination connected Friday, is the archetypal Algerian pistillate to gain an Olympic boxing title.

She is besides the archetypal boxer from her state to assertion the golden medal since Hocine Soltani astatine the Atlanta Games successful 1996.

Women’s boxing though has been successful the Olympics since London 2012.

Khelif has nevertheless insisted she was calved a pistillate and has been surviving arsenic such, and she restated this aft winning the Olympics welterweight golden medal connected Friday.

“I americium a pistillate similar immoderate woman. I was calved a pistillate and I person lived arsenic a pistillate but determination are enemies to occurrence and they can’t digest my success,” Khelif, 25, told a property conference.

“This is my dream. Eight years, my dream. I’m an Olympic champion and golden medallist. I’m precise happy. Eight years, I work,” she said.

“Eight years, nary sleep. Eight years, tired. Now I’m the Olympic champion. I’m precise happy. I privation to convey each the radical (who have) travel to enactment me. People, Algeria, and each the people, Paris.

“This golden medal is the champion reply to the fierce run against me.”

Yang, connected her part, said: “I’m blessed for her. I respect everybody and I volition adjacent larn from her (boxing-wise).”