Lin Yu-Ting’s controversial Olympic bout sparked fury today after the boxer who previously failed a gender test unanimously beat her opponent and reduced her to tears.
Critics slammed the decision to let the Taiwanese fighter compete in the women’s boxing match as ‘unfair, unsafe and wrong’.
The row comes just one day after Algeria’s Imane Khelif beat Angela Carini in a clash lasting just 46 seconds, leaving the Italian boxer with a suspected broken nose.
Carini barely threw a punch before telling her corner ‘it’s not fair’ and then abandoning the match ‘for her own safety’.
Today two-time world champion Yu-Ting needed the full three rounds to beat Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova but the decision to allow the fight to go ahead in the first place sparked fury from women’s rights activists and other athletes.
Sex Matters’ Maya Forstater reacted with outraged emojis to a video of the conclusion of the bout, where a commentator quips ‘job done’.
Former elite marathon runner and two-time Olympian Mara Yamauchi further slated the fight on X, saying ‘shame on the IOC for allowing this’.
Lin Yu-Ting’s controversial Olympic bout sparked fury today after the boxer who previously failed a gender test unanimously beat her opponent and reduced her to tears
Sex Matters’ Maya Forstater reacted with outraged emojis to a video of the conclusion of the bout, where a commentator quips ‘job done’
Former elite marathon runner and two-time Olympian Mara Yamauchi further slated the fight as ‘unfair, unsafe and wrong’
Social media users reacted with fury to the boxing championship
Lin Yu Ting of Chinese Taipei (left) is declared the winner after the bout with Sitora Turdibekova
Turdibekova holds her hand to her head as she is visibly upset by the fight’s result
Lin was always in control – winning the bout with a unanimous decision in three rounds
With a height advantage over her opponent, Lin (in red) quickly landed a neat right hand as she made a dominant start
The clash between Imane Khelif (left) and Angela Carini (right) lasted just 46 seconds, with the Algerian coming out on top
She said: ‘Another female boxer loses to a male at Paris 2024. This is unfair, unsafe & wrong.
‘When males don’t win by miles in the female category, it shows they aren’t very good, not that they don’t have male advantage.
‘Shame on the IOC for allowing this.’
Another person commented on X: ‘Either way she shouldn’t be at the Olympics.
‘If banned in the world boxing championships because of unfair advantage she should not be allowed to compete in the Olympics.’
Jonathan Campbell said: ‘Use your brain… if another woman tested high on testosterone they would of been disqualified because of unfair advantage.
‘That’s why this person shouldn’t be boxing another woman that doesn’t have that advantage.’