Piers Morgan forced to delete social media post after gender row boxer Imane Khelif triumphs over China's Yang Liu to claim Olympic gold<br />Algerian did not lose a single round on her road to glory at Paris Games <br />Morgan weighed in on saga with misguided post before correcting it <br />Khelif's participation at the Olympics has been met with widespread controversy<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.
