2 days before the match between IMane Khelif (Algeria) and Angela Carini (Italy), the female boxer Claressa Shields spoke out on her personal page. She was not afraid to share her opinion when she knew that two female boxers were concluded as male, but still competed in the Paris Olympic Games.
Shields said: “Someone is letting women have to fight men in the Boxing of the Paris Olympic Games. This is unacceptable, I can't stand it. It is sad to know that many female boxers bring dreams to the Olympic Games, but they are ruined by opponents as male.”
Claressa Shields was born in 1995, is the American Boxing athlete. She is considered the best boxer of the contemporary boxing boxing. Claressa Shields has 2 Olympic championships, 2 world championships. She even surprised the throne at the 2012 London Olympics at the age of 17.
After successfully protecting the gold medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics, Claressa Shields moved to a professional playground. The 29 -year -old female boxer has a record of 15 matches, winning the world championship in 4 different weight classes. Recently, she also tried herself in the professional MMA playground.
Besides Claressa Shields, many other veteran boxers of the world boxing also spoke about the case of two athletes identified as male, but still competed in the Olympic Games. In addition to IMane Khelif (Algeria), the other was accused of being Lin Yu Ting (Taipei China), defending champion ASIAD 19.