Olympic boxer Imane Khelif categorized Elon Musk “cruel” and wondered why the Tesla founder would come at her with such dislike when “you don’t even know me.”
Khelif have been on the heart of a gender controversy all over her gold medal run on the Paris Olympics stemming from her being disqualified from the 2023 IBA Global Boxing Championships next failing an unspecified gender eligibility check.
Musk have been a number of the high-profile community who had taken to social media and pilled on Khelif over the unsubstantiated claims that she wasn’t a lady and will have to were competing in opposition to girls within the Olympics.
“Elon Musk was one of the first to attack me during this hate campaign,” Khelif advised French TV display CLIQUE, consistent with a translated video of the interview.
“’He posted this video and it was retweeted. So, he was one of the first to have spread this buzz, this campaign against me. ‘I would say, you hate me but you don’t even know me. I don’t even know why you led this attack. You have been cruel to me, cruel to my family, to my mother. At that time, my mother was going to the hospital every day.”
At that time within the interview, Khelif needed to struggle again tears prior to she persisted.
“So I don’t understand the behavior of people today,” she stated. “God is my guide, I am a practicing Muslim woman. I am a Muslim Arabic woman and I got through this moment. I hope I will be even stronger in the future and come back even more motivated.”
Khelif has persisted to thrust back in opposition to those that took attempt at her all over the Olympics over the debate and Musk was once amongst the ones in a lawsuit she filed in France over the web harassment she confronted.
“Harry Potter” writer JK Rowling was once additionally named within the swimsuit and Khelif’s legal professional requested that former President and tide Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump be a part of the investigation.
Khelif received gold on the Paris Olympics within the 66kg section and controversy got here to the vanguard next Italian boxer Angela Carini had thrown within the towel 46 seconds into their bout.
Extra center of attention got here onto the IBA ruling the occasion prior to and the World Olympic Committee defended its determination to let Khelif compete this summer season.
The IBA have been stripped of its popularity via the IOC as boxing’s governing frame and there were extra questions than solutions over the check that ended in them banning Khelif.
