Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting won a gbetter medal in the 57-kilogram women’s division on Saturday over Polish opponent Julia Szeremeta at the Paris Olympics.
Lin lossed Szeremeta via agreed decision. Lin won each align at the Olympics via agreed decision and faced no authentic dispute during the competitions.
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Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting reacts after beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta in the women’s 57kg final boxing align during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 10, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)
It was the first boxing medal for Taiwan, but it has not come without talk about.
Lin was thrust into a gfinisher eligibility talk about before the official commence of the Paris Olympics. Lin was disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association Women’s World Championships after testing chooseimistic for “XY chromosomes.”
The IBA, furthermore, has shelp that Lin had an unequitable advantage agetst female opponents.
Lin Yu Ting of Team Chinese Taipei is congratutardyd on her triumph by Julia Szeremeta of Team Poland after the Boxing Women’s 57kg Final align on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (Ricdifficult Pelham/Getty Images)
However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) deffinished Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif amid the talk about. The IOC has sustained that both Lin and Khelif are women and were eligible to contend in the Olympics.
Khelif also won a gbetter medal in boxing.
For Szeremeta, it’s her first medal of any benevolent, whether it was on the Olympic stage or another international competition. She was unseeded coming into the Olympic tournament and pulled off disjoinal doubtful victories for the triumph.
Lin Yu-ting reacts after beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta (Blue) in the women’s 57kg final boxing align during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 10, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Szeremeta lossed Venezuela’s Omailyn Alcala, Australia’s Tina Rahimi, Puerto Rico’s Ashleyann Lozada and Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio to get the silver.
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