Mick Hartley

A small additional point about the *complete* corruption of the women's boxing at #Paris24

The boxing was a knockout competition. Angela Carini was knocked out by Khelif in the first round. She didn't get close to the medal bouts, so she can't be awarded a medal. We just…

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The boxing was a knockout competition. Angela Carini was knocked out by Khelif in the first round. She didn't get close to the medal bouts, so she can't be awarded a medal. We just don't know – and we can never know – what would have happened in the absence of Khelif. Carini might have still been eliminated in the first round, or gone much further.

The *whole* competition and *all* the results were completely corrupted by the presence of Khelif and Lin Yu Ting. Some apologists for men in women's sport say "it's only one athlete" and this is always silly. But knockout competitions demonstrate an extreme version of of this stupidity.

A logical consequence: There can't be a just redistribution of the medals. The whole competition at Paris should be declared null and void. There should be massive financial compensation to all those who competed. There should be a public apology from the IOC to all the women boxers. Who should be named. Perhaps there should be commemorative medals to all of them.

I don't say this in order to stymie any attempts to get a re-awarding of medals. But the situation really is irretrievable, and this adds very significantly to the moral harm that has been inflicted by the IOC.