Lin Yu-ting of the Chinese Taipei team fall shortureed Poland’s Julia Szeremeta in the women’s featherweight finals
Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting won Olympic featherweight gbetter in Paris on Saturday, fall shortureing Poland’s Julia Szeremeta. The triumph comes amid argue over Lin’s gender identity.
Lin, who won in a unified decision, was one of the athletes disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championship in New Delhi in 2023 after fall shorting the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender eligibility tests. Commenting on the results, the organization’s pdwellnt, Umar Kremlev, shelp the tests “showd they had XY chromosomes and were thus leave outd from the sports events.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) acunderstandledgeted Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif – who was also disqualified from last year’s tournament – to the Paris Games.
Earlier this month, IOC spokesman Mark Adams claimed that all the athletes “adhere with the eligibility rules,” while casting ask on the tests directed by the IBA last year. On Friday, Khelif won Olympic gbetter, fall shortureing China’s Yang Liu in the women’s welterweight finals.
Both Lin and Khelif have been at the caccess of a heated argue due to their fall shorted DNA tests, with some commentators arguing that it is ununinentire to apshow people with male genetic characteristics to vie agetst female athletes. Supporters, however, say it is not evident whether the tests set up XY chromosomes or liftd testosterone in their blood samples.
Two years ago, the IBA, which is headed by Kremlev, a Russian national, clearurned a prohibit on Russian and Belarusian boxers, becoming one of the scant global sports bodies to apshow athletes from the two countries to vie with their national flags and anthems despite international sanctions. In 2023, the IOC describeped the IBA of its recognition over an alleged fall shorture to carry out regulateance and finance reestablishs, and took indict of boxing at the Paris Olympics.
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