Paris 2024
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News
8/3/2024 7:28:00 PM
The Algerian boxer embroiled in a major gender controversy guaranteed herself at least bronze at the Paris Olympics after winning her quarter-final on Saturday on unanimous points.
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Paris 2024
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Features
8/3/2024 4:51:47 PM
Born in a poor village some 300 kilometres from Algiers, boxer Imane Khelif had to overcome obstacles in a conservative country where women are considered unfit for the sport.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/2/2024 9:32:04 PM
Bakhodir Jalolov marched towards a second Olympic gold as he outfoxed Teremoana Teremoana in a super-heavyweight quarterfinal on Friday, with the beaten Australian accusing him of "running like a cat".
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Paris 2024
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Features
8/2/2024 8:41:06 PM
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/2/2024 7:05:14 PM
Hungarian boxer Anna Luca Hamori, who will fight the Algerian embroiled in a gender eligibility row at the Paris Olympics, said Friday that her opponent's inclusion was unfair.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/2/2024 5:09:07 PM
Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won her opening Olympic boxing bout on Friday, beating Sitora Turdibekova 5:0 in the women's 57-kilogram division.
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Paris 2024
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Features
8/2/2024 11:48:13 AM
A roadmap to follow for the boxing tournaments during the Paris Olympics:
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Paris 2024
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News
8/1/2024 2:51:58 PM
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test last year, won her opening bout at the Paris Olympics in just 46 seconds on Thursday against her distraught opponent.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/28/2024 6:25:40 PM
The Egyptian Olympic Committee has cleared Egyptian Boxer Yomna Ayyad and the Egyptian Boxing Federation of any wrongdoing after she was dropped from the 54 kg women's event for failing to meet the weight requirement.
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Paris 2024
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Features
7/25/2024 10:08:39 AM
Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather and Lennox Lewis are among the boxing greats who have cut their teeth at the Olympics, with a new generation of fighters eager to follow in their footsteps in Paris.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
7/23/2024 9:03:36 PM
In the first Olympics of its kind, the opening ceremony of Paris 2024 will be held outside a stadium, reports Inas Mazhar
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Paris 2024
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News
7/2/2024 9:49:30 AM
Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his Cairo-based coach -- a Gazan who cannot travel to him in the occupied West Bank -- to see his daily Olympics training schedule as he prepares to make history.
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Sports
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Omni sports
6/26/2024 12:38:46 PM
Oleksandr Usyk has confirmed he will vacate his IBF title just weeks after he became undisputed world heavyweight champion.
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Sports
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Omni sports
6/16/2024 11:57:46 AM
Gervonta “Tank” Davis made a triumphant return to the ring after more than a year away, once again showing why he is one of the top pound-for-pound boxers.
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Sports
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Omni sports
6/7/2024 6:35:01 PM
Mike Tyson's fight with Jake Paul is now set for Nov. 15 after the former world heavyweight champion fell ill on a flight last month.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/19/2024 5:11:35 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led the tributes to Oleksandr Usyk whose victory over British fighter Tyson Fury in Riyadh made him the first undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion in a quarter of a century.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/14/2024 9:39:29 AM
Former heavyweight king Mike Tyson said Monday his decision to step back into the ring at the age of 57 was a "no-brainer", brushing off recent criticism that he was too old to make a comeback.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/11/2024 10:34:13 AM
Ukrainian boxing great Vasiliy Lomachenko brushed aside rival George Kambosos' taunts of sending him into "retirement" ahead of their lightweight world title fight on Sunday in Perth.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/8/2024 9:07:13 PM
The World Boxing Council has stripped unbeaten Jermall Charlo of his middleweight title following his arrest this week on suspicion of drunken driving in Texas.
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Sports
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Omni sports
4/2/2024 7:39:07 PM
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday threw out an appeal from the International Boxing Association (IBA) after it was stripped of its rights to organise boxing events at the Paris Olympics.
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