If you want to participate, you must follow the rules of the competition. Since we are participating, we will follow the rules, says her trainer.
At the Olympic Games in Paris last year, Lin Yu-Ting received great attention. Lin, who won gold in the 57-kilo class, was not a woman, it was said. Along with Imane Khelif, Algeria, who was accused of the same thing, Lin was in the midst of a storm of hatred.
Gender tests from the World Championship in boxing 2023 had shown X- and Y-chromosomes, which most men have, and Lin Yu-Ting and Imane Khelif were stopped from competing.
But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) thought that the tests from the International Boxing Federation (Iba) were invalid and gave the green light for the competition. This made Iba kick back and take legal action against the IOC. The two federations have broken off relations and at the next Olympic Games, in Los Angeles 2028, it is instead the new organization World Boxing (WB) that is responsible for the cooperation with the IOC.
WB has decided that all boxers who want to participate in the women's class in the World Championship in Liverpool, which starts on September 4, must undergo gender tests.
