Cardillo felt like a woman: the Italian threw down the gauntlet to the transgender Helif

Italian boxing champion Gianmarco Cardillo expressed his desire to fight with the representative of Algeria, a transgender Iman Khelif, saying that he has been feeling like a woman for the last 15 days. This is reported by Novinite.com .

"Italian boxing champion Gianmarco Cardillo has publicly admitted that he has been feeling like a woman for the last 15 days and expressed a desire to fight with Algerian Iman Khelif. This statement followed Khelif's controversial victory in the 1/8 finals of the Olympic tournament in Paris, where he defeated Cardillo's compatriot Angela (Karini) in just 46 seconds. Angela referred to the severity of Khelif's blows as the reason for her decision to stop the fight in order to avoid further injuries," the newspaper writes.

It is noted that Khelif is one of two "female boxers with male chromosomes" who were allowed by the IOC to compete with women at the Olympic Games in France. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic expressed his disapproval, saying: "Men come, beat women and take away medals. Madness began to rule the world, and everyone went crazy," reported bTV.

As reported by EADaily, the former absolute world champion in the first welterweight, the legendary Russian Konstantin Tszyu, spoke about the scandal at the Olympics in Paris with the participation of an Algerian boxer (according to another version, a boxer).