Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has spoken out about the ongoing gender row in female boxing.

Italian boxer Angela Carini pulled out of the Olympics mid-fight on Thursday after she sustained a series of punches from her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif, who last year failed a gender eligibility test at the World Championships.

IOC spokesperson said: “The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport. This is not a transgender case.”

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