IBA says it will award Italian boxer Angela Carini Olympic champion prize money

PRIZE MONEY: Italy’s Angela Carini abandoned her fight against Imane Khelif. Picture: John Locher/AP

The International Boxing Association claims it will award Angela Carini the prize money she would have won had she become Olympic champion.

Italian Carini abandoned her fight with Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the athlete at the centre of a gender eligibility storm at Paris 2024, after just 46 seconds.