Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, like Algeria’s Imane Khelif, was disqualified midway through the World Boxing Championships last year.
This is because, according to the organization IBA (which is suspended from the IOC for, among other things, corruption charges, and is not allowed to organize the Olympic tournament), they failed gender tests. The IBA has given different information about the tests, but the most common justification has been that they both had both X and Y chromosomes, which men usually have.
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Bowed to the audience
The fact that they participate in the Olympics and compete against women there, which they have done throughout their careers, has created enormous debate – above all on social media where both have received a lot of hate.
But now both are ready for the Olympic finals. Tonight, Lin Yu-ting won on points against Turkish Esra Yildiz Kahraman.
Yu-ting bowed and bowed to the audience, then went to the Taiwanese woman sitting in one corner of the ring.
The Turkish woman did as Staneva did
After the Taiwanese applauded her, Yildiz Kahraman stepped into the ring and made several X gestures with her hands towards the TV cameras and the audience – as if to symbolize X chromosomes.
Even the Bulgarian Svetlana Kamenova Staneva, whom Lin Yu-ting beat in the quarter-finals, acted in a similar way – and was also clear in interviews afterwards that she does not appreciate Yu-ting being allowed to participate in the women’s class.
Lin yu Ting, who has 45 wins and 14 losses in her career, will meet Poland’s Julia Szeremeta in Saturday’s final.