PARIS — Less than a minute into her bout against an Algerian boxer barred from the 2023 world championships after failing a gender eligibility test, Italy’s Angela Carini decided that she was done.
She raised her hand to stop the fight after absorbing a flurry of powerful jabs from Algeria’s Imane Khelif in the opening seconds of the first round.
Carini told her coach Emanuel Renzini that her nose hurt too much for her to continue. Renzini urged her to try to make it to the end of the first round so that they could talk further, but Carini raised her hand again after taking just one more punch from Khelif and asked once more to abandon the fight.