Algeria’s Khelif in tears after ensuring at least bronze amid gender row

ALEGRIA’S Imane Khelif celebrates her victory over Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary in the women’s 66kg quarter-final boxing bout at the North Paris Arena on Saturday.—AFP

PARIS: Imane Khelif, embroiled in a major gender controversy, beat Hungary’s Luca Anna Hamori by unanimous decision and bursting into tears after winning the welterweight quarter-final fight at the Paris Games on Saturday to ensure Algeria’s first Olympic boxing medal since 2000.

Khelif, a silver medallist at the 2022 worlds...