Imane Khleif threatens lawsuit over report, swings back at world leaders 'who speak without a source'

Olympic golden medalist Imane Khelif threatened a suit against a French writer implicit past week’s study which alleged the arguable boxer had testicles.

Khelif appeared connected Italy’s "Lo Stato delle Cose" connected Thursday and touched connected the report.

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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria competes against Anna Luca Hámori of Team Hungary, not pictured, successful the women's 66kg quarter-final boxing lucifer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games astatine the North Paris Arena, successful Villepinte, France, connected Aug. 3, 2024. Khelif won the lucifer and precocious to the semifinals. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We volition conscionable with the French writer successful court," the Algerian jock said, via NDTV.

The study from Le Correspondent cited a French-Algerian aesculapian study and claimed Khelif was impacted by a enactment improvement upset that is lone recovered successful biologic males. The study said that without a due aesculapian examination, the incorrect sex is assigned astatine birth.

It was Khelif’s archetypal remarks astir the study since its release. Fox News Digital reached retired to Khelif’s lawyers but did not perceive back.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) told Fox News Digital it understood that Khelif was preparing a suit against the journalist.

"We recognize that Imane Khelif has taken ineligible enactment against individuals who commented connected her concern during the Olympic Games Paris 2024, and is besides preparing a suit successful effect to the latest reporting," the IOC said. "The IOC volition not remark portion ineligible enactment is ongoing, oregon connected media reports astir unverified documents whose root cannot beryllium confirmed."

The International Boxing Association President Umar Kremlev besides responded to the report.

Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates triumph against Anna Luca Hámori of Team Hungary, not pictured, aft the Women's 66kg Quarter-final circular lucifer connected time 8 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine North Paris Arena connected Aug. 3, 2024. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

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"Everyone already knows the news. The International Olympic Committee has violated each sports rules by putting a antheral against a woman. Tests person again confirmed that Imane Khelif is so a man," Kremlev said past week. "Today, arsenic the President of the International Boxing Association, which upholds sex equality and protects some women’s and men’s boxing, I request that Thomas Bach and his squad some verbally and successful writing, apologize to the planetary boxing community. 

"Thomas Bach himself bears nonstop work for this, arsenic helium personally lobbied for this to hap – for men to vie against women. On behalf of each boxers successful the world, I request them to kneel and apologize to the boxing assemblage and to those girls who person been beaten and abused. Thomas Bach, I americium present waiting, arsenic is everyone successful IBA, for your authoritative apology."

Khelif was embroiled successful contention earlier and passim the Paris Olympics aft reports surfaced implicit a failed sex trial that led to a disqualification astatine the International Boxing Association World Championships. The Algerian Olympic Committee said astatine the clip that Khelif was disqualified for "medical reasons." 

The contented was a acheronian unreality implicit the women’s boxing information of the Olympics, arsenic Khelif faced accusations of being a antheral competing successful the women’s division. Khelif pushed backmost connected each accusations astir gender.

President-elect Donald Trump and Italian Giorgi Meloni some remarked astir the Khelif controversy.

Algeria's Imane Khelif reacts anterior the lucifer against Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori successful the women's 66kg quarter-final boxing lucifer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games astatine the North Paris Arena successful Villepinte, France, connected Aug. 3, 2024.  (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"I person seen that determination are galore politicians and presidents who talk without a source, and it is thing strange, due to the fact that they marque statements without a basis, without reality," Khelif said, via The Telegraph.

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Khelif has already filed lawsuits against aggregate radical who called the boxer a man, including "Harry Potter" writer J. K. Rowling.

Fox News' Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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