Lin Yu-ting, a former world champion boxer from Taiwan, has been reportedly submitting her gender test results but won’t compete in the world championships starting this week.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif engaged in a significant gender fight. They both won titles in their respective weight classes.
Under its new policy, World Boxing announced last month that all female competitors competing in the Liverpool championships between September 4 and 14 would have to go through gender testing.
Lin, 29, had agreed to go through the testing, according to her coach, Tseng Tzu-chiang.
“Due to the new gender tests, she has not considered withdrawing from the competition.” As part of our regular procedures, we will submit all the necessary paperwork, according to Tseng.
The semi-official Central News Agency reported late on Monday that Taiwan’s boxing association had submitted the results to World Boxing but had not received a response.
Without any guarantee, the association was quoted as saying, “We cannot allow the athlete to enter the UK.”
Lin won’t attend the world championships in Liverpool, the association informed AFP in a message on Tuesday, but it didn’t provide a justification or response to AFP’s other inquiries.
Tseng, Lin’s coach, did not return calls or texts.
World Boxing has reached out to AFP for comment.
A PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, genetic test is required for fighters over the age of 18 who want to compete in a World Boxing-sponsored competition under its rules.
Lin and Khelif were declared ineligible for the 2023 World Boxing Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after they claimed they had failed the eligibility tests.
However, they were denied entry to Paris by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), claiming that the IBA had made an “unexpected and arbitrary decision” to allow them to compete. Both succeeded in winning.
Khelif has challenged World Boxing’s gender testing using the top court in the sport, CAS.
No boxer is scheduled to compete in Liverpool at the moment.
During the Paris Games, Khelif and Lin were the targets of rumors about their biological sex, harassment, and disinformation.
They were defended by the IOC, who claimed their passports show they were raised as women and were born and raised as such.
Source: Aljazeera
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