Paris 2024 gold medallist Imane Khelif captured the eye of the globe throughout her Olympic marketing campaign earlier this 12 months, ignoring the headlines that speculated her gender to attain her dream. Now, simply because the controversy surrounding Khelif’s identify started to die down, the Algerian has introduced that she is going to make the change to the skilled ranks.
Together with Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after failing her gender eligibility exams carried out by the IBA, who had been just lately eliminated because the governing physique for the Olympic video games, though the legitimacy of these ‘exams’ has come into query since.
Regardless of competing on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Championships, each Khelif and Lin had been topic to relentless abuse all through the summer season as a consequence of the IBA’s presumed inconclusive and unreliable exams.
But, each Khelif and Lin fought by the hearth and towards the uproar to win their respective gold medals within the welterweight and featherweight classes.
After rumours that Khelif was stripped of her gold medal had been confirmed as false, the 25-year-old held a press convention, revealing that she can be turning skilled within the near-future and that she has loads of promotional provides, as per The Solar.
“I wish to maintain a press convention at this time to share with you my success story with the media household and younger girls who watch me.
“There’s a documentary being ready about my success story and will probably be proven on worldwide platforms.
“I’ll quickly enter the world {of professional} boxing, I’ve many provides.
“At the moment, I’ve not made up my thoughts about the place I’ll enter skilled boxing.
“However very quickly I’ll take this step, we as Algerians wish to see our stage within the subject of professionalism.”
In addition to her Paris 2024 gold, Khelif additionally boasts a silver medal from the 2022 World Championships, in addition to quite a few different gold medals from varied different beginner competitions.
After such a dominant efficiency all through Paris 2024, Khelif is prone to show to be a menace within the skilled sport and is certain to turn into probably the most recognised names on the planet of ladies’s boxing.
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