By Blake Wolf, OAN Staff
Friday, August 2, 2024 12:31 PM
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting’s victory in her bout against Uzbekistan’s Shitra Turdybekova on Friday sparked a second controversy in Olympic boxing.
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The day before, the boxing world was abuzz after another fighter, Algeria’s Imane Kherif, won his bout in just 46 seconds after his opponent had conceded defeat and left the ring crying and shaking in pain.
“I’ve never been hit so hard in my life,” Kherif’s opponent, Angela Carini of Italy, said after the match.
The Algerian fighter sparked online discussion after social media users speculated she was actually male due to her physical and facial features and after she failed a gender test last year, but the Olympic Committee maintains that both fighters are in fact biologically female and were “determined female at birth.”
Both Lynn and Kheriff have been stripped of their medals for the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after they failed gender-neutral eligibility tests. AP NewsThis usually appears when tests detect elevated testosterone levels in female athletes.
Around the time the pair were disqualified, IBA president Umar Kremlev said, “DNA tests have revealed that several athletes tried to deceive their colleagues into posing as women,” but did not say whether he was referring to Khelif, Lin Yuting or other athletes.
moreover, Yahoo!News “Yuting and Kherif are not transgender – they were born female – but tests showed that their DNA contains XY chromosomes, normally associated with men, rather than the XX chromosomes normally associated with women. This means their testosterone levels are closer to those of men, who have 2.6 times the punching power of women,” the report said.
The IBA has since not been recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which has cleared Lin and Kheriff to compete in the 2024 Olympics.
“The two athletes are the victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA,” the IOC said. “The current attack against the two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, taken without due process, especially given that the two athletes have competed together at the highest level for many years.”
The IOC staunchly defended its decision to allow both athletes to compete in the Paris Olympics.
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