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The International Boxing Association (IBA) declared the Italian boxer Angela Carini as the Olympic champion despite being defeated by Algerian Imane Khelif in just 46 seconds of the first round game at the Paris Olympics.

President IBA Umar Kremlev has announced that the governing body will give Carini the fixed prize money for the gold medalist.

Read this: Hungarian boxer shares insulting posts against Algeria’s Imane Khelif before match

The IBA allocated $3.1 million in prize money for the 100 medalists of the May Olympics boxing event. The gold medal has a prize of $100,000, of which $50,000 will be given to the player, $25,000 to the coach, and $25,000 to the federation.

The controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has intensified, with Hungarian boxer Luca Hamori shared insulting posts on Instagram before their match.

Read this: Social media rallies behind Imane Khelif as racism over Muslim boxer turns ugly

Later, she was forced to remove them from her social media account after being heavily criticized.

The Algerian Olympic Committee strongly protested against the issue and wrote a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stating, “The Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee concludes to the knowledge of national and international public opinion, that follows the official complaint submitted today by our Olympic body to the International Olympic Committee, regarding the violation and serious violation of sport ethics and affecting the Olympic Charter, in the person of our champion Imane Khelif, by one of the participants in the boxing tournament for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 The International Olympic Committee has issued a final apology to violators with an order to delete every post that concerns our heroine Iman Khalif.”

“We reserve the right to prosecute everyone who participated in the heinous campaign against the heroine Imane Khelif. Good luck to our heroine, and long live.”

The fight between Algerian woman boxer Imane and Hungary’s Luca Hamori is scheduled today. In the first fight, Imane defeated Angela Carini in just 46 seconds after the Italian conceded, crying on her knees in the ring while refusing to shake her opponent’s hands.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) disqualified Imane based on an unspecified test. But the Olympics committee has clarified that she is a biological woman but born with “elevated levels of testosterone.”

One more Pakistani athletes has been eliminated from the Paris Olympics, after Faiqa Riaz was eliminated from the women’s 100-meter race.

Faiqa, who set a new national record of 11.70 seconds at the National Athletics Championship, finished sixth out of nine athletes at the Olympics, covering the distance in 12.49 seconds.

Earlier, Pakistani swimmers Jehanara Nabi and Ahmed Durrani and shooters Kishmala Talat and Joseph Gulfam were eliminated.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has become the center of a racist attack after her opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit their match while crying, just 46 seconds into the first round.

The two women exchanged just a few punches before Carini’s helmet was dislodged. She refused to shake Imane’s hands and cried on her knees in the ring. Later, she said that she quit after experiencing intense pain in her nose. Notably, she said that she had not refused to fight Imane.

The match led to an uproar among right-wing Western conservatives, including Harry Potter author JK Rowling and Elon Musk, who instantly resorted to calling Imane a man because she had failed an unspecified test in the World Boxing Championships last year. The governing body said she had “elevated levels of testosterone.”

Social media was quick to rally to Khelif’s defence, pointing out that she had been competing as an amateur since years and had been defeated by women before this match.

Users shared childhood pictures of the Algerian sportswoman, showing her in girl’s clothing and pigtails. Others pointed out that Algeria is a conservative Muslim country where women cannot have gender reassignment surgeries and transgenderism is legally barred.

Nida Kirmani wrote that the episode proved that black and brown athletes face immense racism.

Algerian Football Media account called her a “superwoman”.

Another account called out Rowling and pointed out that Khelif just has elevated testosterone, something she was born with.

Others called out Carini for crying about being hit in a boxing match.

Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikec has become a viral sensation at the Paris Olympics, not just for winning a silver medal in the Mixed 50-meter Pistol event but also for his unique style.

Unlike other shooters who use ear protectors and special lenses for accuracy, Dikec appeared to be wearing only his prescription glasses and just a t-shirt with pants. He casually kept his non-shooting hand in his pocket as he aimed and fired, helping him win the silver medal.

Dikec became instantly famous on social media, the face of a thousand memes. 

A South Korean Olympic sharpshooter, Kim Ye-ji, who won a silver medal in the women’s 10-meter air pistol, became an internet sensation on Wednesday, recognised as the breakout style star of the Paris Games.

Wearing her black South Korean uniform zipped up to her neck, a baseball hat, and wire-rimmed shooting glasses, the 31-year-old appeared very calm in videos showing her and her teammate achieving the two highest shooting scores in the Olympics on Sunday.

After her win, a 27-second clip of Kim calmly aiming, shooting, and checking her record-breaking score went viral.

This clip was first shared in a Reddit thread and shows Kim at the Baku World Cup in May, not in the Olympics.

Even though the video kept spreading online on X (formerly Twitter), along with images of Kim from Paris, style magazine GQ quickly called Kim “the coolest style star of this year’s Games.”

Elon Musk (Owner of X) also commented on this video, “She should be cast in an action movie. No acting required.”

Kim will compete in the 25-meter pistol again on August 3 at the Olympics.

Former Indian cricketer and coach Anshuman Gaekwad has passed away at the age of 71 after a long battle with blood cancer.

According to media reports, he was undergoing treatment for blood cancer at King’s College Hospital in London before returning to India last month.

He made his Test debut on December 27, 1974, against West Indies in Kolkata and played his last Test match against England at the same venue in 1984.

He played 40 Tests and 15 ODIs for India between 1974 and 1987.

Indian star batsman Virat Kohli was called ‘Chokli’ by a fan in Sri Lanka when he was practicing with teammates. The batsman looked upset and embarrassed to hear this. The video of the incident went viral on social media.

However, some social media users say the video is fake, and the voice was later dubbed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjN3KapMeCs

The term ‘Chokli’ combines Virat’s other names ‘Kohli’ and ‘Choking’, which some fans have combined to make ‘Chokli’, a name mockingly used to address the master batsman if he does not score runs or performs poorly.

The term first appeared after India exited the 2019 World Cup, where Kohli was bowled out for one run in a semi-final match.

Paris Olympics 2024 are in full swing, and based on their performances, athletes from all over the world are winning bronze, silver, and gold medals.

Winning any medal is an honour for any athlete, but the ‘gold medals’ given to the athletes at the Olympic Games stand out because real gold is used to manufacture them.

According to International Olympic Committee (IOC) standards, a gold medal uses 92.5 per cent silver and 6 per cent pure gold. Pure silver is used in the silver medal, and copper, iron, and zinc are used in the bronze medal.

A gold medal awarded to the winning athletes at the Paris Olympics weighs 523 grams, uses 6 grams of pure gold, and costs 1,027 US dollars (about 298,000 PKR).

Similarly, the silver medal awarded to the athletes in the Paris Olympics Games weighs 525 grams, is made of pure silver, and costs more than 535 US dollars (approximately one lakh 55 thousand PKR).

The bronze medal produced for the Paris Olympics weighs 455 grams, is made of copper, iron and zinc, and costs 4.6 US dollars (approximately 1,330 PKR).

In the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, the winning athletes were given ‘gold medals’ made of pure gold.

Afghanistan’s leg-spinner Rashid Khan has become the only spinner to complete 600 wickets in T20 cricket.

The Afghan bowler is second in the list of overall bowlers who have taken the most wickets in T20 cricket, followed by former West Indies captain DJ Bravo, who took a total of 630 wickets during his T20 career, but he is a fast bowler.

West Indies spinner Sunil Narine is third with 557 wickets, South Africa’s Imran Tahir is fourth with 502 wickets, and Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is fifth with 492 wickets.