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Lin Yu-ting guaranteed to win Olympic boxing medal amid ongoing gender row

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Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting has guaranteed herself an Olympic medal as she remains at the centre of a gender row.

She saw off Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva via a unanimous decision on Sunday morning to book herslef a spot in the semi-finals, meaning at worst she will finish in joint third place. Yu-Ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif were banned from International Boxing Association World Championships last year for reportedly failing a gender test.

Yet both boxers have been cleared to fight in the female category by the IOC in Paris after the Russian-led IBA was stripped of the right to run boxing at the Games.

Olympic chiefs have defended the involvement of both Yu-Ting and Khelif with Yu-Ting’s Olympic officials called the accusations against her discriminatory and declared them a deliberate attempt to undermine the boxer’s mental state.

The IOC said it made its eligibility decisions on boxers based on the gender-related rules that applied at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. IOC president Thomas Bach has defended the two female boxers and there was "never any doubt" they are women despite their disqualification from the 2023 World Championships.

He said on Saturday: "Let's be very clear, we are talking about women's boxing. We have two boxers who are born as a woman, who have been raised as a woman, who have a passport as a woman and who have competed for many years as a woman. This is the clear definition of a woman. There was never any doubt about them being a woman."

The controversy began when Khelif needed just 46 seconds to beat Angela Carini of Italy - who opted out of the fight when she claimed she'd never been hit so hard as she was reduced to tears.

Khelif's win over previous opponent Angela Carini was shrouded in controversy (
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IBA genetic tests showed that Khelif and Yu-Ting have male XY chromosomes in their DNA, but neither are transgender. Britain's Nicola Adams, who has previously landed an Olympic gold, was among those to speak out against their involvement.

She said on social media: "After years of fighting for women's boxing to even exist in the Olympics and then all the training they go though to get there it was hard to watch another fighter be forced give up on her Olympic dreams.

"People not born as biological women, that have been through male puberty should not be able to complete in women's sport. Not only is this unfair it's dangerous!!"

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