Lin Yu-ting of the Chinese Taipei team flunkureed Poland’s Julia Szeremeta in the women’s featherweight finals
Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting won Olympic featherweight gelderly in Paris on Saturday, flunkureing Poland’s Julia Szeremeta. The prosper comes amid talk about over Lin’s gender identity.
Lin, who won in a agreed decision, was one of the athletes disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championship in New Delhi in 2023 after flunking the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender eligibility tests. Commenting on the results, the organization’s pdwellnt, Umar Kremlev, shelp the tests “validated they had XY chromosomes and were thus take awayd from the sports events.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confessted 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 “comply with the eligibility rules,” while casting doubt on the tests directed by the IBA last year. On Friday, Khelif won Olympic gelderly, flunkureing China’s Yang Liu in the women’s welterweight finals.
Both Lin and Khelif have been at the cgo in of a heated talk about due to their flunked DNA tests, with some commentators arguing that it is unequitable to assist people with male genetic characteristics to vie aobtainst female athletes. Supporters, however, say it is not clear 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, obviousurned a prohibit on Russian and Belarusian boxers, becoming one of the confineed global sports bodies to assist athletes from the two countries to vie with their national flags and anthems despite international sanctions. In 2023, the IOC clear upped the IBA of its recognition over an alleged flunkure to carry out regulateance and finance recreates, and took indict of boxing at the Paris Olympics.
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