- Title: Boxing fans divided on gender row as Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting fights in quarters
- Date: 4th August 2024
- Summary: VILLEPINTE, FRANCE (AUGUST 4, 2024) (REUTERS) FANS WALKING TOWARD ENTRANCE OF NORTH PARIS ARENA FANS AT ENTRANCE VARIOUS OF FANS WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) 27-YEAR-OLD TAIWANESE FAN RAY HUNG, SAYING: “She (Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting) had been often questioned (over her gender) in international matches, but in Taiwan, we don’t really have such doubts. In terms of the s
- Embargoed: 18th August 2024 10:02
- Keywords: Lin Yu-ting Olympics Paris 2024 boxing
- Location: VILLEPINTE, FRANCE
- City: VILLEPINTE, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Europe,Olympics,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001420303082024RP1
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- Story Text:Taiwanese featherweight Lin Yu-ting advanced to the semi-finals with a win over Svetlana Staneva of Bulgaria on Sunday (August 4), but fans making their way to the Olympic boxing venue north of Paris were divided on whether she should be allowed to participate.
Lin and Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif, who advanced to the semis on Saturday (August 3), have been in the spotlight at the Paris Games after a gender row that has dominated headlines.
The pair fell foul in 2023 of International Boxing Association (IBA) eligibility rules, which include preventing athletes with XY chromosomes from competing in women's events. The IBA did not specify on what grounds they failed.
It has never been shown that they have a genetic condition giving rise to a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD) and the two boxers were cleared to fight in Paris by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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