Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, gold medalist at Paris Olympics, receives warm welcome in home town

Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif has been welcomed as a hero in her home town.

The football-obsessed North African country has given Khelif the celebrity treatment since she returned to Algiers earlier this week.

Nowhere has this been more true than Tiaret, the largely rural region in central Algeria where she grew up and learned to box.

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