A second boxer who ‘failed a gender test’ has won her opening bout at the Olympic Games after being cleared to compete despite a dispute over her eligibility.
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting gave a great performance on Friday at the North Paris Arena by defeating Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova.
The 28-year-old displayed impressive striking and quick footwork, maintaining his dominance in the ring and securing the points win.
Afterwards, her opponent Turdibekova was overcome with emotion and could not hold back her tears as her decision was read out in the arena. She also chose not to shake Yu-Ting’s hand after the bell.
Yu-Ting, a two-time gold medalist at the World and Asian Championships who reportedly has 40 wins and 14 losses in his amateur career, was considered the highest-ranked player in the event.
Lin Yu-ting (pictured), who like Khelif was disqualified from the Women’s World Championship last year, won her opening bout in the women’s featherweight boxing event
Lin claimed a unanimous decision victory over Sitora Turdibekova (right) at the North Paris Arena
Uzbekistan’s Turdibekova burst into tears in the boxing ring after the score was read out
Lin’s fight comes a day after Algeria’s Imane Khelif (left) won the women’s welterweight bout when Angela Carini (right) surrendered after 46 seconds
Lin is one of two boxers disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Boxing Championships.
Her victory comes just a day after controversy erupted when Algeria’s Imane Khelif won the women’s welterweight event amid a row over eligibility requirements.
Carini was punched twice by Khelif in the opening round of their women’s welterweight bout in Paris.
The blows appeared to knock off the Italian boxer’s chin strap, sending the fighter running to her corner.
Carini returned to the center of the ring and left the match, with Khelif being declared the winner.
The Italian boxer, who claimed before the match that she could “only adapt to the rules of the Olympic Games”, was subsequently seen crying in the middle of the ring after the match’s abrupt end.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) – which lost its recognition amid a series of governance problems – disqualified Khelif and Lin from the Women’s World Boxing Championships last year.
Lin won the bronze medal after winning three fights before losing in the semi-finals to Kazakhstan’s Karina Ibragimova.
The IBA later stripped Lin of his medal, stating the boxer did not meet the eligibility requirements.
The International Boxing Association, led by president Umar Kremlev, has disqualified both Lin and Khelif from the world championships for failing to pass the entry tests.
The IBA said the tests were conducted during the 2022 and 2023 World Championships and that Lin has not appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
According to feminist website Reduxx, both sexes are said to suffer from difference in sex development (DSD), a set of medical conditions diagnosed at birth in which the genitals are atypical in relation to chromosomes.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) said in a statement on Wednesday that the decisions were made “after careful assessment.”
The IBA stated that neither athlete had suffered a sports injury. testosterone tests, but were instead “subject to a separate and recognised test” administered at their 2022 and 2023 world championships.
It is claimed that the tests ‘conclusively demonstrated that both athletes did not meet the required eligibility criteria’, with both boxers ‘appeared to have a competitive advantage over other female competitors.’
The IBA hit out at the IOC, saying its rules were a deviation from the rules.raise serious questions about both the fairness of the competition and the safety of the athletes.’
Lin triumphed at the Asian Games last year, securing a spot at the second Olympic Games
The IBA is not responsible for the IOC withdrawing its recognition of the Olympic competition due to ongoing governance problems. The organization has established the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit to organize the event.
The Boxing Unit has approved the participation of both boxers under the rules that apply to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. These rules are less strict than those of the IBA.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams warned of a “witch hunt” against the two boxers who were cleared to compete in Paris and criticized the inaccurate reporting. He stressed that the cases are not a transgender issue.
Adams had called for the rhetoric to be “scaled back”, adding that they were “completely comfortable with the rules” previously used at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.