When the culture of “normality” joins with cheering, there is no escape: Khelif and Carini “victims” of the same killers

In the end, as often happens in Italy, the issue has become polarized. Come on Guelphs And Ghibellines onwards (perhaps even before) it has always been like this. There is no measure in the judgment, there is no balance. Either you are “for” or “against”. Gray, as a shade, is not contemplated. And so also the Khelif-Carini caseAlgerian and Italian boxers involved in the media case par excellence of the Paris Olympic Gameshas been engulfed in the same toxic dynamic. There were two detonating factors that sharpened this dualism: the vexed question of normality and cheering. A mix that blew up in the faces, mainly, of the protagonists. Angela Carini paid with elimination from the Olympics – an appointment awaited for four years, which for her lasted just a few seconds – certainly influenced by the pre-match controversy, guiltily fueled also by the sports and political institutions of our country. She withdrew more for the pain of the soul than the physical one. She didn’t feel like saying it at the end of the match, but the feeling is precisely that of a moral surrender before that of the body. And the Algerian boxer? She will definitely win a medal: at worst it will be bronze. But she probably won’t display any metal in her showcase, because even just admiring it briefly would uncover this very bitter memory.which yesterday reduced her to tears and led Imane’s father to show her birth certificate: “We’re talking about a woman, I assure you!” Because her Paris medal will always bring to mind this absurd story. And it will dramatically recall that word so strident and anachronistic in the era in which we live: “normality”. Which, combined with stadium cheering, morally killed two girls. Two boxers. Two people.