Paris 2024: Olympic boxing’s gender controversy, explained

Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/John Locher)PARIS — It wouldn’t be an Olympics without a cultural controversy, and we’ve already seen several from these Games. Last week, the Opening Ceremony inflamed passions, and this week, a boxer’s quick dispatching of her rival set off critics. Here, explained, is the developing story of the Olympic boxing gender scandal, involving Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting.

Are men boxing in women’s divisions at the Paris Olympics?

The International Olympic Committee has repeated on multiple…