Caitlin Clark was named AP’s Feminine Athlete of the 12 months with out a lot competitors, however one one that acquired votes was the trigger for a lot controversy over the summer time.
A gaggle of 74 sports activities journalists from The Related Press and its members voted on the award. Clark acquired 35 votes, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was second with 25.
However Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif was third, getting 4 votes.
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Imane Khelif of Workforce Algeria celebrates victory in opposition to Anna Luca Hamori of Workforce Hungary after the Girls’s 66kg Quarter-final spherical match on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at North Paris Area on Aug. 3, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Photos)
Khelif certified for the Paris Olympics, however Khelif’s gender was referred to as into query following a disqualification from the 2023 championships earlier than a gold medal bout over gender eligibility points.
IBA President Umar Kremlev stated the boxer had “XY chromosomes,” that are related to organic males.
One boxer, Angela Carini, forfeited her bout in opposition to Khelif in Paris, saying “one punch hurt too much.”
Khelif received gold in Paris and wasn’t the one boxer to win a girls’s gold who has been disqualified for failing gender eligibility exams. Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting additionally received gold in one other girls’s weight class in Paris, prompting related outrage.
The Worldwide Olympics Committee (IOC) defended Khelif and Yu-ting’s inclusion within the girls’s occasions till the very finish.
Imane Khelif of Algeria, left, fights Liu Yang of China within the girls’s gold medal match on the 2024 Paris Video games. (Sebastian Kahnert/image alliance by way of Getty Photos)
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“These two athletes were the victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA. Towards the end of the IBA World Championships in 2023, they were suddenly disqualified without any due process,” the IOC stated through the video games.
Khelif later received gold. Khelif didn’t lose a single spherical on any scoreboards in Paris.
After Carini received her eighth girls’s Italian title earlier this month, she claimed the victory was her “revenge.”
Gold medalist Imane Khelif of Algeria poses on the rostrum through the medal ceremony for the ladies’s 66kg last boxing class through the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris on August 9, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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Khelif was essentially the most Googled athlete of the 12 months, largely partially as a result of controversy.
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