Khelif’s match reverse Italy’s Angela Carini lasted solely 46 seconds, after Carini took some highly effective punches to the face. Carini might be seen preventing again tears as she ended the match.
In an interview with the BBC, she mentioned: “It might have been the match of a lifetime, however I needed to protect my life as nicely in that second.”
She did, nevertheless, inform the press following the match she wouldn’t “decide” Khelif, saying: “I want her to hold on till the tip and that she may be completely happy. I’m somebody who doesn’t decide anybody. I’m not right here to present judgments.”
Nonetheless, Rowling, who has been very vocal about her views on the transgender group, stepped into the fray following the match.
The Harry Potter creator posted a photograph of Khelif and a visibly distraught Carini after the match on X, writing: “May any image sum up our new males’s rights motion higher? The smirk of a male who is aware of he’s protected by a misogynist sporting institution having fun with the misery of a girl he’s simply punched within the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s simply shattered.”