"I didn't feel like fighting anymore after less than a minute. I got hit in the nose and lost my balance, I wasn't breathing so I said enough."

This is what Angela Carini, the 25-year-old Italian boxer, who yesterday abandoned the Olympic match against the Algerian Imane Khelif after 46 seconds, declared. She said this in an interview for "La Stampa", at the center of the controversy about her acceptance into the competition despite her very high testosterone.

"I wanted to get into the ring. I thought about my father, who is an example of life for me, and about the efforts I made to be here. This was my Olympics for me and I wanted to cover the last kilometer." says Carini, according to KosovaPress.

"My father and God chose this path, as far as I'm concerned, I respect all my opponents", says Carini, who goes on to talk about her Algerian rival: "I'm no one to judge. I am no one to make a decision. This girl is here, there must be a reason that I fought and entered the ring, as I should have done," she continued.

However, after the decision, she did not say goodbye to her opponent: "I made a mistake, I left the ring out of anger, but not towards my opponent." She gave up because "his blows were too strong". And she had never experienced anything like it: "No, honestly not. I've taken a lot of hits. I'm a fighter and someone who never stops in the face of pain." Even in this case, she underlines, "there were no irregularities", but also "with all my determination and stubbornness, I could not move forward".

"My nose hurts terribly. I'm broken. I'm a warrior, my father taught me to be a warrior." In this case, however, "I asked myself: who am I facing? But then it's not up to me to decide. I feel sorry for him too, we ended up in a media boom. Who are we to judge? To say what is right and wrong We are athletes, we are not judges? And, she concludes, "for me it is not a defeat. I didn't lose, I just matured. I leave with my head held high and now I say goodbye to boxing."