Imane Khelif’s Former Sparring Partner Emerges With Bizarre Claims After Olympic Gender Controversy
. . .Bulgarian-Nigerian women’s boxer Joana Nwamerue sparred with Khelif on several occasions and has bizarre theories on Khelif’s background after the Algerian boxer was in the middle of a gender controversy at the Olympics.
“[Khelif] has some kind of internal issues. But he is a man,” Nwamerue said, according to Reduxx. “I will stay [by] my words until he/she does a test to prove to the world that he/she is a woman. But we all know that won’t happen.” . . .
“[Khelif’s] teammates came to me and told me ‘Imane is not a man,’” Nwamerue said.
“She is a woman and just lives high in the mountains with her relatives and parents and so there may be a change in her testosterone or chromosomes and the like…. I think we played three-to-four sparring sessions. I have a record of everything. I can confirm that this is a man to me. Male power. Men’s techniques, everything.”
Khelif is not transgender and was born a woman, although she was banned last year by the International Boxing Association (IBA) over a mysterious failed test that IBA president Umar Kremlev claimed showed she had XY chromosomes. (Read more from “Imane Khelif’s Former Sparring Partner Emerges With Bizarre Claims After Olympic Gender Controversy” HERE)