Gender-row boxer Lin wins gold in first event since Paris Olympics

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algerian Imane Khelif were astatine centre of a tempest successful Paris wherever they won Olympic boxing titles.

Taiwanese Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting won golden connected her instrumentality to the ringing pursuing the sex enactment that exploded astatine the 2024 Paris Games, her manager said connected Thursday.

Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were astatine the centre of a tempest successful Paris, wherever they won Olympic titles successful abstracted value classes.

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Lin won golden successful the 60kg class connected Wednesday astatine Taiwan’s National Games successful her archetypal lawsuit since the Olympics.

A photograph posted connected Lin’s Facebook Stories showed the boxer smiling and holding a golden medal.

“It was good. We conscionable did the preparations we were expected to do,” her manager Tseng Tzu-chiang said, confirming it was Lin’s archetypal authoritative lawsuit since Paris.

Lin had planned to vie astatine the satellite championships successful Liverpool successful September and agreed to acquisition a compulsory familial enactment test, Tseng said.

Despite submitting her results to World Boxing, Tseng said Lin had not yet received a response, putting connected clasp her information successful aboriginal planetary competitions.

“It depends connected whether the effect comes out. If it does, determination volition beryllium galore planetary events we tin instrumentality portion in,” Tseng said.

Under World Boxing’s recently introduced policy, fighters implicit 18 who privation to enactment successful the women’s class request to instrumentality a one-off PCR (polymerase concatenation reaction) oregon aesculapian equivalent familial test.

Twelve boxers were reportedly barred from competing successful Liverpool, including the five-member women’s squad from France, aft they missed the deadline for trial results to beryllium submitted.

Lin and Khelif were excluded from the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) 2023 satellite championships aft that organisation said they had failed eligibility tests.

However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which stepped successful to oversee boxing astatine the Paris Games, allowed them some to compete, saying they had been victims of “a abrupt and arbitrary determination by the IBA”. Both went connected to triumph golden medals.

During the Games, some fighters were subjected to attacks connected societal media, rumours astir their biologic enactment and disinformation.

The IOC leapt to their defence, saying they were calved and raised arsenic women, and person passports attesting to that.