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Daily Briefing: Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting are women
By Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY,
3 hours ago
Olympic organizers said there is no doubt boxers at the center of gender attacks are women. Category 1 Hurricane Debby moves closer to Florida's Big Bend on Monday. Sharks in Florida waters pose a small, but very real, threat.
Boxers at the center of gender attacks will fight for medals
Algerian fighter Imane Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting are guaranteed to win Olympic medals. The two boxers are headed to semifinals this week after enduring jabs both in and outside of the ring in Paris, as outsiders throw punches against their eligibility.
The background: Both athletes have faced draconian public scrutiny, relentless media attention and an avalanche of abuse on social media platforms because they were allowed to compete in Paris despite being disqualified from last year’s world championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) for failing to meet gender-eligibility criteria.
Opinion from USA TODAY Sports : The IOC should have known that the IBA, which has been completely thrown out of the Olympics because it is a corrupted, fully-owned subsidiary of the Russian government, leveraged a highly transphobic atmosphere as revenge.
Khelif will compete in the semifinals Tuesday and Lin will compete in the semifinals on Wednesday. Click here for live coverage of competition at the Paris Games for Monday, Aug. 5.
Floridians are bracing Monday for the state's first hurricane strike this year in a season that forecasters say could become one of the worst on record. Hurricane Debby could produce life-threatening storm surge and rain totals that could reach 30 inches in parts of the Southeast by week's end. Read more
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For the more than 7 billion people in the world – about half of whom live within about 100 miles of the ocean – the number of shark attacks is vanishingly small: about 60 bites and an average of six fatalities per year. You’re more likely to die from a lightning strike than suffer a serious shark attack. That said, Florida leads the world in shark attacks .
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