Imane Khelif at the Bottega Veneta spring 2025 show.

Bottega Veneta fall 2024, look 50.

(Carini later issued an apology and recognized Khelifs right to compete.)

MILAN ITALY  SEPTEMBER 21 Imane Khelif attends the Bottega Veneta fashion show during the Milan Womenswear SpringSummer…

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The experience loomed large over Khelifs Games.

After her win, she said: I am fully qualified to take part.

Im a woman like any other woman.

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Imane Khelif at the Bottega Veneta spring 2025 show.

Khelif sits front row at Bottega Venetas spring 2025 show in a rabbit beanbag chair.

Khelif took her front-row seat on a leather rabbit chair, between Moore and Shahidi.

(Elordi, whose Bottega Veneta campaign featured him making bunny ears also sat on a rabbit chair.)

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Bottega Veneta fall 2024, look 50.

TheNew York Timess Vanessa Friedmanreportedthat Yeoh was seated on a ladybug, and Moore a bear.

Elordis seatmate, A$AP Rocky, was assigned a rooster.

So Moss-Bachrach should, in fact, read into it.

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Khelif sits front row at Bottega Veneta’s spring 2025 show in a rabbit beanbag chair.

Kendall Jenner at Bottega Veneta spring 2025.

Jacob Elordi at Bottega Veneta spring 2025.

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Kendall Jenner at Bottega Veneta spring 2025.

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Jacob Elordi at Bottega Veneta spring 2025.