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Paris Olympics 2024: Tejaswin Shankar takes the plunge into Paris gender row!
Updated On: 02 August, 2024 01:18 PM IST | Mumbai | Ashwin Ferro
India high jumper feels a separate category should be created for athletes with excess androgen after Italian boxer Carini refused to continue her fight against Algerian Khelif who failed gender test last year
India`s Tejaswin Shankar at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year. pic/AFP
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.
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