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.
In Ain Mesbah, the rural cinder block-built town where the boxer was raised, legions of supporters convened on her uncle’s home to watch Khelif’s match. With news camera lights shining on the gathering, they drank orange juice, waved flags and whistled as Khelif jumped around the ring in excitement about advancing to Friday’s gold medal match.
“Imane Khelif, the last round against hate and racism!” read a Tuesday headline in leading Algerian daily Echourouk, which described her as “an iconic figure in national sport.”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.
Supporters and relatives celebrate after watching Imane Khelif advance to the women's 66kg Olympic final, in Tiaret, Algeria, on Tuesday.that the spread of misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity” and, throughout the Olympics, both family members and Algeria’s leading politicians echoed that description, describing the attacks against her as misguided.
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