Imane Khelif's next opponent at the Olympic Games confirmed: Algerian boxer will take on Hungarian rival Anna Luca Hamori after her Italian opponent withdrew in just 46 seconds

Imane Khelif's adjacent force has been confirmed, pinch Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori to measurement successful nan ringing pinch nan Algerian astatine nan Olympic Games.

Boxing astatine this year's Games successful Paris  been marred by conflicting gender eligibility rules successful Paris, pinch Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting allowed to compete contempt being disqualified from past year's world championships.

The brace grounded unspecified gender eligibility tests and were deemed to person a competitory advantage, but nan International Olympic Committee person allowed some to compete. 

That determination has sparked outrage among nan boxing organization and it came to a caput connected Thursday erstwhile Italy's Angela Carini withdrew from her bout against Khelif aft conscionable 46 seconds, having felt nan powerfulness of 2 of her punches.  

She cried successful nan ringing earlier leaving.

'She felt symptom successful nan chemoreceptor and said to me, 'I don't want to conflict more',' her Italian coach Emanuele Renzini told reporters successful surgery English.

'People say, 'Don't go, it's dangerous, she's a man'. Maybe it's this (why she quit).

'It's not my decision, It's a difficult decision. I don't want to beryllium nan CEO astatine nan moment.'

Khelif won a metallic badge astatine nan International Boxing Association's 2022 world championships and will adjacent look Williamson, if she's capable to hit Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori successful Thursday's day session.

The 25-year-old entered nan ringing astatine nan North Paris Arena to a chorus of cheers, but nan crowd was confused by nan bout's abrupt end.

Khelif past dodged media arsenic she briskly exited nan arena, while Carini fought done tears to explicate it was nan injury, and not a protest, that forced her abrupt abandonment.

'I felt a beardown symptom successful my chemoreceptor and ... could nary longer decorativeness nan match,' she said. 

'I americium heartbroken because I americium a fighter, my begetter taught maine to beryllium a warrior.

'I felt each nan contention that location has been ... that was not thing that stopped maine aliases blocked maine mentally.'Regardless of each nan contention that location was, I ne'er cared, I went up and I conscionable wanted to win.'

Aussie prima Williamson could person been adjacent to look Khelif, but she mislaid her bout against Hungarian rival Hamori by divided determination successful Paris. 

The conflict betwixt Khelif and Hamori will return spot connected Saturday day astatine 4.22pm.