The Olympic boxer who walked out of her Paris 2024 fight after just 46 seconds has said she wants to apologize to her opponent.
Italian boxer Angela Carini spoke out after she faced Algeria’s Imane Khelif at the Olympics yesterday (1 August).
The fight was only just getting started, with only a few punches thrown when Carini abandoned the welterweight 16 round bout altogether.
Carini refused to shake Khelif’s hand and appeared to get emotional in the ring before she left, later explaining she ‘didn’t succeed’ because she simply ‘couldn’t fight anymore’.
Her walkout at the Olympics came after Khelif was disqualified from the boxing world championships in 2023 after she failed a gender eligibility test due to what the International Boxing Association claimed were elevated levels of testosterone.