Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has become a hometown hero in Algeria, a conservative, Muslim-majority country where attacks on her gender have been interpreted as attacks on the nation.
Find Insider Deals for items perfect around the house and on the goSupporters and relatives celebrate after watching Algerian boxer Imane Khelif advance to the women's 66-kg Olympic final, in Tiaret, Algeria, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. In Ain Mesbah, the rural cinderblock-built town where the boxer was raised, legions of supporters convened on her uncle’s home to watch Khelif's match.
Rifka, an Algerian social media influencer with 5.4 million Instagram followers, posted earlier this week showing himself traveling from Algiers to Paris to stream Khelif’s matches and reading headlines about Elon Musk's misconceptions about Khelif's gender.Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called Khelif via telephone to cheer her on and backed her amid the criticisms.
“I come from a region and family that are conservative. Boxing was a sport for men only and the hardest thing for me was traveling between my village and the town where I trained,” she said, recounting how she sold bread in the street.
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