Lin Yu-ting Wins Gold in Boxing Amidst Gender Debate

Lin Yu-ting recorded featherweight gold on Saturday, beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and getting rid of more than a week of specious accusations that she should not be battling in the females’s department.

Lin won by consentaneous choice at Roland-Garros arena, with the 5 judges scoring it 10-9 in all 3 rounds for the fighter representing Chinese Taipei.

The gold medalist is noted at 5-foot-9 and her Polish challenger at 5-foot-5, however the variation seemed higher in reality, with Lin punching downhill and seldom being threatened.

Lin and welterweight gold medalist Imane Khelif of Algeria have actually both handled a firestorm of concerns from challengers incorrectly questioning their gender because they got in Olympic competitors.

Khelif and Lin have actually completed for several years in females’s occasions, consisting of at the Tokyo Olympics, and there is no sign that they determine as transgender or intersex, the latter describing individuals born with sex qualities that do not fit strictly into the male-female gender binary.

Concerns surrounding their gender originated from a choice by the Russian-led International Boxing Association to disqualify them at last year’s Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi. The IBA got rid of those 2 fighters from a competitors at the time, stating they had tests that questioned their gender eligibility.

The IBA stated it had actually performed tests in 2022 and 2023 that raised doubts about the fighters’ gender since of their chromosomes.

The IBA has actually not launched information of the screening. IOC representative Mark Adams called those eligibility tests “flawed” and” not genuine” at a press conference Sunday

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