Chinese Taipei Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting will not compete at world championships: official
The Paris Games gold medallist had reportedly agreed to gender testing for world event and submitted results, but has received no response
Olympic boxing gold medallist Lin Yu-ting will not compete at the world championships starting this week, Chinese Taipei’s association said on Tuesday, despite reportedly submitting her gender test results.
Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were at the centre of a major gender row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they won titles in separate weight classes.
World Boxing said last month that women wanting to compete at the championships in Liverpool on September 4-14 would have to undergo mandatory gender testing under its new policy.
The 29-year-old Lin had agreed to undergo the testing, her coach Tseng Tzu-chiang said at the time.
Chinese Taipei’s boxing association said it submitted the results to World Boxing and had not received a response, the semi-official Central News Agency reported late Monday.
“We cannot allow the athlete to travel to the UK without any guarantee,” the association was quoted as saying.