Fans meet Algeria's Imane Khelif as she leaves with gold
Piers Morgan forced to delete social media post after gender row boxer Imane Khelif triumphs over China's Yang Liu to claim Olympic gold
Algerian did not lose a single round on her road to glory at Paris Games
Morgan weighed in on saga with misguided post before correcting it
Khelif's participation at the Olympics has been met with widespread controversy
Piers Morgan has been forced to delete a social media post he put up shortly after Imane Khelif won Olympic gold in the final of the women's 66kg contest in Paris on Friday night.
The Algerian, who has been at the centre of a gender row which has dominated this summer's Games, stormed to victory after dismantling China's Yang Liu at a packed Roland Garros to cap off a controversial march to first place in which she did not lose a single round.
The most eagerly anticipated fight of the Games turned into another mismatch, with the 25-year-old rocking her opponent on multiple occasions in front of a delighted crowd.
Khelif, the heavy pre-fight favourite with odds of 1/8, won every round with every judge and raised her arm in a mock military salute before being carried around the ring on the shoulders of her ecstatic coach.
And the outspoken Morgan decided to weigh in on the ongoing saga with a misguided post to X, formerly Twitter, in the wake of the bout, the Mirror reports.
Algerian did not lose a single round on her road to glory at Paris Games
Morgan weighed in on saga with misguided post before correcting it
Khelif's participation at the Olympics has been met with widespread controversy
Piers Morgan has been forced to delete a social media post he put up shortly after Imane Khelif won Olympic gold in the final of the women's 66kg contest in Paris on Friday night.
The Algerian, who has been at the centre of a gender row which has dominated this summer's Games, stormed to victory after dismantling China's Yang Liu at a packed Roland Garros to cap off a controversial march to first place in which she did not lose a single round.
The most eagerly anticipated fight of the Games turned into another mismatch, with the 25-year-old rocking her opponent on multiple occasions in front of a delighted crowd.
Khelif, the heavy pre-fight favourite with odds of 1/8, won every round with every judge and raised her arm in a mock military salute before being carried around the ring on the shoulders of her ecstatic coach.
And the outspoken Morgan decided to weigh in on the ongoing saga with a misguided post to X, formerly Twitter, in the wake of the bout, the Mirror reports.
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