Since winning an Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has seen her career and personal life dramatically reshaped, not by her performance in the ring, but by a global political and cultural storm surrounding gender and identity in sport. Khelif, who grew up in a modest household in Algeria, has long been regarded as one of the country’s most talented boxers. She began boxing as a teenager, defying social expectations and limited resources, and steadily rose thr