Italian officials had already protested the inclusion of the Algerian and Olympic officials were assessing how to deal with further controversies surrounding the Algerian as she fights her way towards a medal.
Carini’s father also served in the police, but was injured in an accident when she was a toddler and had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Speaking in 2020, she said: ‘My father is my hero. I am very attached to him, he taught me that in life you should never give up. And when I’m in the ring and the situation gets tough, I hear his example, I never give up.
‘When he was paralysed I was only two years old. I grew up on his legs, he never made me miss anything. I have never seen him as a different father from the others, the chair on which he is sitting has never divided us, quite the contrary.’
Her father died away in 2021, a few days after her Olympic debut at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, and she considered quitting the sport.
‘I didn’t want to box without my dad anymore. But I came back because I owe it to him. He has always been by my side and now we fight together.’
