“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” – Isaiah 1:17
On Thursday, a shameful boxing match that was surrounded by controversy before it even began, took place at the 2024 Olympics in Paris between Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Italy’s Angela Carini. Many rightfully condemned Imane Khelif’s participation in the match as Khelif, in 2023, failed a gender eligibility test that revealed he is a man with male chromosomes (XY), and thus was banned from women’s boxing in the World Championships in India last year.
Unbelievably, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared the way for Khelif to box against women competitors this year. Sadly, the match played out just as one would predict. Khelif, a male, brutalized the biological female, Angela Carini.
The entire match lasted a mere 46 seconds before Carini retreated to her corner and had to throw in the towel. She simply could not stand up to the power and strength of the punches that were fiercely being thrown at her by Khelif.
After years of training and boxing many women boxers, the Italian stated that she has “never been hit so hard in my life.” Boxing, also known as the sweet science, is a combat sport where the goal is to physically impose one’s strikes on the opponent. With a simple understanding of the sport of boxing, it is easy to recognize that what happened to Angela Carini was injustice at the highest level of athletic competition.
This once again reinforces what inevitably happens when gender ideology gets its way, especially in the sports world. Women lose and get hurt. There is no excuse for this injustice, and the International Olympic Committee needs to step in immediately and stop this atrocity from continuing – men do not belong in women’s sports.
LET US PRAY…
Father, we pray that the International Olympic Committee will act and stop this atrocity from continuing. Lord, please protect the women boxers competing at the Olympics from getting seriously hurt because of this injustice. Father, help us to be strong and faithful advocates for Your good design. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
