Tina Rahimi: Meet the Aussie Paris Olympics boxer who is on a collision course with controversial fighter who was banned from the ring for failing a gender test

Australia's first Muslim female boxer Tina Rahimi erstwhile said 'no 1 should beryllium excluded' for nan athletics - and now connected a collision people pinch arguable Taiwan combatant Lin Hu-ting astatine nan 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 

Imane Khelif from Algeria and Yu-ting were disqualified from nan 2023 Women's World Championships aft International Boxing Association president Umar Kremlev announced DNA tests revealed they had XY chromosomes. 

According to his statement, nan fighters are not transgender, but were calved with DNA that contains antheral chromosomes. 

The IBA stated that nan determination was made to sphere nan fairness and integrity of nan competition.

However, nan IBA is not responsible for moving nan Olympic boxing events successful Paris. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended its determination to let nan 2 boxers to compete successful nan 2024 Paris Olympics, contempt failing testosterone and gender eligibility tests astatine nan 2023 tournament.

The IOC confirmed that some fighters - who were calved female and do not place arsenic trans aliases intersex - could compete nether gender eligibility rules that were applied during nan Tokyo Games successful 2021.

That statement came to a caput overnight pinch Khelif destroyed Italian boxer Angela Carini in conscionable 46 seconds, leaving her successful tears and nursing a surgery nose.

Now Commonwealth Games bronze badge victor and Pacific champion Rahimi is group to return connected Hu-ting successful nan semi-finals of nan featherweight section if they some support advancing.

Hu-ting will conflict Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova coming while Rahimi will return connected Poland's Julia Szeremeta pinch some vying for a spot successful nan quarterfinals.

Rahimi and Hu-Ting are connected other ends of nan tie and would conflict successful nan semi-finals if some advance.

Tahimi is simply a proud Muslim female who wears a hijab successful nan ring, on pinch master constitution and coverings for her arms and legs.

Earlier successful nan tournament, she said each women should person nan opportunity to compete astatine nan highest levels of nan sport.

'No matter really you look aliases dress, what your ethnicity is aliases what belief you follow,' Rahimi said connected Instagram. 

'We each travel together to execute that 1 dream. To compete and to win. No 1 should beryllium excluded. Discrimination is not invited successful sport, specifically successful nan Olympics and what it stands for.' 

Rahimi is different to astir amateur fighters because she ne'er dreamed of becoming an Olympian, she conscionable wanted to return up nan athletics for fitness.

However, claiming bronze astatine nan Commonwealth Games stoked her competitory occurrence and she wants to beryllium really acold she tin spell astatine nan highest level successful Paris.

'My Olympic dream is not akin to astir people. I ne'er grew [up] dreaming astir being an Olympian. I ne'er moreover watched an Olympic games until Tokyo 2020,' she revealed connected Instagram.

'It was only aft nan 2022 Commonwealth Games that a extremity sparked wrong maine to suffice for nan Olympics. I mislaid successful nan semi finals and secured myself a bronze badge and I knew I wasn't done conscionable yet. '