Vice President Kamala Harris “supports” an Olympics fighter who failed a gender test and subsequently defeated Italian boxer Angela Carini in just 46 seconds on Thursday, the Trump campaign said in a statement.
The Biden-Harris administration introduced new Title IX changes to allow men in women’s sports and locker rooms.
“Males identifying as women will be protected under federal law to use locker rooms and other single-sex spaces, play girls sports, or take advantage of opportunities like scholarships earmarked for females,” the New York Post’s
“Kamala Supports What Just Happened At The Olympics,” the Trump campaign said in a statement on Thursday. “
🚨REMEMBER: 203 House Democrats voted to keep biological males in women’s sports.
Disgraceful. https://t.co/tJG5DBqODs pic.twitter.com/azk8OgEUQj
— NRCC (@NRCC) August 1, 2024
On Thursday, Italian boxer Angela Carini lost to opponent Imane Khalif, whom the Olympics cleared to compete after failing a testosterone level test.
“I have never been hit so hard in my life. It’s up to the IOC to judge.”
Italy’s Angela Carini after lasting just 46 seconds against Algeria’s intersex athlete Imane Khelif.
Biological firestorm at Paris Olympics. pic.twitter.com/BQRTF9Dc3m
— Pete Badel (@badel_cmail) August 1, 2024
“I’ve never taken a punch like that,” Carini said, leaving the ring in tears.
“I’m used to suffering. I’ve never taken a punch like that, it’s impossible to continue. I’m nobody to say it’s illegal,” Carini told Italy’s ASNA.
“I got into the ring to fight. But I didn’t feel like it anymore after the first minute. I started to feel a strong pain in my nose. I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I’m leaving with my head held high,” she said.
