Caitlin Clark was named AP’s Feminine Athlete of the Yr with out a lot competitors, however one one who acquired votes was the trigger for a lot controversy over the summer season.
A bunch 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.
Khelif certified for the Paris Olympics, however Khelif’s gender was known as into query following a disqualification from the 2023 championships earlier than a gold medal bout over gender eligibility points.
IBA President Umar Kremlev mentioned 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 gained gold in Paris and wasn’t the one boxer to win a girls’s gold who has been disqualified for failing gender eligibility checks.
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting additionally gained gold in one other girls’s weight class in Paris, prompting comparable outrage.
The Worldwide Olympics Committee (IOC) defended Khelif and Yu-ting’s inclusion within the girls’s occasions till the very finish.
“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 mentioned throughout the video games.
Khelif later gained gold.
Khelif didn’t lose a single spherical on any scoreboards in Paris.
After Carini gained her eighth girls’s Italian title earlier this month, she claimed the victory was her “revenge.”
Khelif was probably the most Googled athlete of the yr, largely partly because of the controversy.
