“I say goodbye to boxing”said the Italian in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa and revealed and elaborated on the reasons why she decided to abandon the fight and say goodbye to the sport.
However, Carini is sure that it was not a defeat but rather a He retired “with maturity” and stressed that the confrontation in their first Olympic Games It was not against their opponents, but a battle and challenge against herself.
The main dispute of this fight was based on the controversy of the hyperandrogynous Algerian athlete, Imane Khelifwho had been disqualified from the World Boxing Championship last year, for not passing the tests and trials of gender.
“I had no desire to fight after less than a minute. I received a blow to the nose and lost my balance, He wasn’t breathing so I said enough”he explained Carini and expressed that his pain at the end of the fight was due to frustration and physical pain.
The Italian commented that when she got into the ring she thought about her father and all the efforts that led her to that moment but she stressed that she regretted of not having greeted his opponent after the fight: “I made a mistake by not greeting her, I left the ring out of anger but not towards my opponent.”
Carini was firm in expressing the personal analysis he made after fighting, but he made his position very clear. stay outside of the controversies about the boxer Imane Khelif“I wanted to give it my all, regardless of the person in front of me. Who are we to judge? To say what is right and what is wrong? We are athletes, not judges.“, he concluded.
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Due to the scandal and debates that arose around this battle, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), published a statement where supported the participation of Imane Khelif and the taiwanese Lin Yu Tingwho also received criticism regarding her failure to take the gender test in 2023.
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