Sobbing Olympics gender row boxer Imane Khelif beats Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori in brutal match as controversial march towards medals in Paris continues

The Olympics astir arguable boxer stood her crushed coming amid a vicious ‘hate campaign’ and took different elephantine measurement towards her golden badge dream.

Imane Khelif, 25, defeated Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, 23 aft spending nan past 48 hours, since her first bout successful Paris, astatine nan centre of claims that she was, successful fact, a male.

She managed to stay focussed connected nan boxing and unveiled her determination to defy her detractors by showing her people and powerfulness successful nan ringing by winning her 2nd conflict successful Paris.

When Khelif entered nan ring, she was met pinch resounding cheers and did a Ronaldo style celebration, going toner knees and past junking up pinch arms raised.

She and her Hungarian force touched gloves astatine nan commencement arsenic a sporting gesture.

Her steely composure during nan astir extraordinary focus connected immoderate jock successful Paris is apt to beryllium greeted by Olympic chiefs who have backed her passim nan scandal.

But nan questions complete information are group to proceed contempt claims that overmuch of nan guidance against her is fuelled by online hate.

Khelif, who was calved a female and described by Olympic main Thomas Bach coming arsenic ‘a woman...a woman…a woman’ had been targeted by nan International Boxing Association astatine nan World championships successful New Delhi past twelvemonth for having grounded gender eligibility tests.

But she remained defiant and having dispatched her first force Italy’s Angela Carini went into nan ringing pinch nan afloat backing of nan Italian and nan Algerian Boxing Association who brought her to France.

The furore surrounding her had worsened erstwhile nan Hungarian posted a photograph connected societal media of a ‘beauty and a beast’ successful nan tally up to nan bout and declared she would participate her adjacent conflict not concerned whether she would beryllium contesting nan bout pinch a man aliases a woman.

But it only helped summation nan attraction connected Khelif’s activity and Olympic chiefs slammed nan online ‘hate speech’ levied towards her.

Khelif was 1 of 2 boxers to person their activity questioned astatine nan Olympics pinch nan 2nd being Taipei’s Lin Yu-Ting who hit Sitora Turdibekova, 22, of Uzbekistan pinch a unanimous determination successful her favour.

Olympic officials opportunity nan matter is simply a ‘minefield’ and that nary forensic and unquestionable technological grounds has been provided to beryllium some athletes were not women.

IOC main Bach said: ‘We are talking astir women's boxing .We person 2 boxers who are calved arsenic a woman, who were raised arsenic women, who person passport arsenic women, who person competed for galore years arsenic women. This is nan clear meaning of a woman.'

But Khelif’s squad were unhappy pinch nan ‘baseless’ accusations made against nan boxer and erstwhile she yet returns to Algeria will beryllium a prima having provided nan astir sensational boxing bout by defeating her first force successful conscionable 46 seconds connected Thursday.

She is said to beryllium group for a tumultuous invited erstwhile she lands backmost successful Tiaret pinch offers of TV shows and films, said an Algerian businessman surviving successful Paris.

‘She is simply a nationalist heroine backmost home. The nationalist location are very sorry for her for nan measurement she has been treated. She was not celebrated before, but she is simply a prima now.’

The Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee revenge an charismatic title pinch nan IOC to protestation nan online harassment of Khelif that amounts to ' a superior usurpation of sports morals and nan Olympic Charter by 1 of nan participants successful nan boxing tournament at nan Paris Olympics, according to a connection that was posted connected nan committee's Facebook page.

The connection did not sanction nan boxer who has allegedly posted disparaging comments of nan Algerian, but warned that nan IOC 'has issued a last informing to delete each station that concerns our heroine Iman Khalif.'

It added: ' We reserve nan correct to prosecute everyone who participated successful nan heinous run against our heroine Imane Khelif.'