High jumper Tejaswin Shankar has emerged as the first Indian athlete to speak on the gender segregation row that has taken the ongoing Paris Olympics by storm.

On Thursday Italian boxer Angela Carini refused to continue her fight against Algeria’s Imane Khelif just 46 seconds into their contest in Paris. Khelif, is one of two athletes, who were cleared to compete at the Paris Olympics by the IOC despite having been disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Championships in New Delhi for failing to meet the gender eligibility criteria.