Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting will at least land herself a bronze medal at the Olympics despite the female boxer being caught up in a gender row after being banned last year due to her ineligibility
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting has guaranteed herself an Olympic medal as she remains at the centre of a gender row.
Yet both boxers have been cleared to fight in the female category by the IOC in Paris after the Russian-led IBA was stripped of the right to run boxing at the Games. The IOC said it made its eligibility decisions on boxers based on the gender-related rules that applied at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. IOC president Thomas Bach has defended the two female boxers and there was "never any doubt" they are women despite their disqualification from the 2023 World Championships.
The controversy began when Khelif needed just 46 seconds to beat Angela Carini of Italy - who opted out of the fight when she claimed she'd never been hit so hard as she was reduced to tears.
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