{"id":486059,"date":"2024-08-07T01:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486059"},"modified":"2024-08-07T01:57:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:57:01","slug":"khelif-continues-dominance-and-reaches-final-amid-gender-speculations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/khelif-continues-dominance-and-reaches-final-amid-gender-speculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Khelif continues dominance and reaches final amid gender speculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Imane Khelif is set to fight for Olympic gold on Friday after overcoming controversy surrounding her eligibility to decisively win her semi-final against Janjaem Suwannapheng in Paris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Imane Khelif will fight for GOLD! \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddff<\/p>\n<p>She won her 66kg bout against Janjaem Suwannapheng from Thailand to reach the Olympics final.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ImaneKhelif?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ImaneKhelif<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wEPo5tFu3q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wEPo5tFu3q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DW Sports (@dw_sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dw_sports\/status\/1820928443300675689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Khelif, the Algerian welterweight, was disqualified from last year&#8217;s World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) for failing gender eligibility tests, but she is competing in Paris amid significant public and media attention.<\/p>\n<p>With enthusiastic support in the repurposed Court Philippe Chatrier, Khelif dominated her Thai opponent, winning by unanimous decision. This victory propels her to her first Olympic final, following a quarter-final exit in Tokyo three years ago. Khelif will face Liu Yang of China in the gold-medal match, aiming to become Algeria&#8217;s first boxing gold medallist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am focused,&#8221; the 25-year-old stated. &#8220;I am here for a good performance and my dream. I will give everything I have for the final.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Imane Khelif is set to fight for Olympic gold on Friday after overcoming controversy surrounding her eligibility to decisively win her semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486060,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,18144],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18357,18146],"acf":{"announce":"She becomes Algeria's first medalist in Paris 2024","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486061,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486059\/revisions\/486061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486059"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486059"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}