Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting won against Uzbek boxer Sitora Turdibekova
Boxer Lin Yu-ting, who was formerly disqualified from the women’s International Boxing Association World Championships last year, has won her latest round against Uzbek boxer Sitora Turdibekova in the Paris Olympics.
The Taiwanese boxer, who’s a two-time world champion, previously failed the IBA’s now-unrecognized gender eligibility test.
Fellow Olympian, Imane Khelif, was also dismissed from last year’s world championships.
The Algerian boxer has recently been caught in controversy following her match with Italy’s Angela Carini, who requested to stop their fight after 46 seconds.
At the time of Lin and Khelif’s dismissal from the 2023 championships, the IBA’s president Umar Kremlev released a statement alleging that their gender and testosterone tests ‘proved they had XY chromosomes.’ Y is the male chromosome.
Neither Lin nor Khelif have publicly identified as transgender or intersex.
More to come.
