Premier Giorgia Meloni had a meeting
on Friday with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President
Thomas Bach, amid a major controversy over Thursday women's
boxing match at Paris 2024 between Italy's Angela Carini and
Imane Khelif, an Algerian who was disqualified from last year's
world championships for failing gender-eligibility tests.
The 25-year-old from Naples stopped fighting seconds into round
of 16 women's welterweight (under 66kg) contest saying the first
punch she suffered hurt too much and it was clear she was
outpowered.
The IOC has used a different set of rules for admission to the
Paris 2024 tournament than those for the women's boxing world
championships.
Meloni said Thursday that the Carini-Khelif match was not a fair
fight and women should not have to compete against opponents
with "male genetic characteristics".
Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) Giovanni Malagò also took part
in the meeting at the hotel where Meloni is staying in Paris,
according to the sources.
The topics of the meeting also included the 2026 Milano-Cortina
Winter Olympics and international politics, the sources said.
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