Gender-row Olympic boxer Lin won’t compete at world championships

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif some acceptable to miss boxing’s satellite championships amid ongoing sex row.

Taiwanese Olympic boxing golden medallist Lin Yu-ting volition not vie astatine the satellite championships starting this week, contempt reportedly submitting her sex trial results.

Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were astatine the centre of a large sex quality astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, wherever they won titles successful abstracted value classes.

World Boxing said past period that women wanting to vie astatine the championships successful Liverpool connected September 4-14 would person to acquisition mandatory sex investigating nether its caller policy.

The 29-year-old Lin had agreed to acquisition the testing, her manager Tseng Tzu-chiang said astatine the time.

“She has not considered withdrawing from the contention due to the fact that of the caller sex tests. We volition taxable each the applicable documents requested by the organisers, arsenic portion of mean procedures,” Tseng said.

Taiwan’s boxing relation said it submitted the results to World Boxing and had not received a response, the semi-official Central News Agency reported precocious Monday.

“We cannot let the jock to question to the UK without immoderate guarantee,” the relation was quoted arsenic saying.

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting reacts aft beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta (blue) successful the women’s 57kg last boxing lucifer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games [File: Mohd Rasfan/AFP]

The relation told the quality bureau AFP successful a connection connected Tuesday that Lin “will not be the satellite championships successful Liverpool”, but did not springiness a crushed oregon respond to AFP’s different questions.

Lin’s manager Tseng did not respond to telephone calls oregon messages.

AFP has contacted World Boxing for comment.

Under its policy, fighters much than 18 years aged who privation to enactment successful a World Boxing-sanctioned contention request to instrumentality a PCR, oregon polymerase concatenation absorption familial test.

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

However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed them some to vie successful Paris, saying they had been victims of “a abrupt and arbitrary determination by the IBA”. Both went connected to triumph.

Khelif has turned to sport’s apical court, CAS, to situation World Boxing’s sex testing.

At present, neither boxer is acceptable to vie successful Liverpool.

Khelif and Lin were subjected to attacks connected societal media, rumours astir their biologic enactment and disinformation during the Paris Games.

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

Lin Yu-ting claimed the Paris 2024 Olympic golden astatine the Roland-Garros Stadium [File: Mohd Rasfan/AFP]

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