First Imane Khelif... next, Lin Yu-ting: ANOTHER boxer set to fight at Paris Olympics despite failed gender tests

The gender statement engulfing boxing astatine nan Paris Olympics isn't going to settee anytime soon, pinch different boxer who has grounded eligibility tests scheduled to conflict connected Friday.

Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, a two-time world champion, will travel Imane Khelif successful competing astatine her 2nd Olympics erstwhile she fights Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan successful nan 57-kilogram category.

Algerian combatant Khelif has sparked a immense world statement aft her opponent, Italy's Angela Carini, discontinue 46 seconds into their conflict Thursday aft taking 2 monolithic hits, saying she had ne'er been struck truthful difficult successful her life.

Both Khelif and Lin were judged past twelvemonth to person grounded gender eligibility tests astatine nan world championships. Khelif, 25, has antheral XY chromosomes but is not transgender. Both fighters are female successful their passports. 

Lin is top-seeded successful nan women's 57-kilogram featherweight class, which gave her a first round-bye up of her showdown pinch Turdibekova.

She won nan Asian Games title past twelvemonth which saw her suffice for Paris. Lin won her first world title successful 2018 and was a younker world champion successful 2013.

Khelif and Lin are two-time Olympians who some fought successful nan Tokyo Games.

The IOC many times defended nan boxers' correct to compete this week. Olympic boxing reached gender parity for nan first clip this year, pinch 124 men and 124 women competing successful Paris.

'Everyone competing successful nan women's class is complying pinch nan title eligibility rules,' IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said Tuesday. 'They are women successful their passports and it’s stated that this is nan case, that they are female.

'These athletes person competed galore times earlier for galore years. They haven’t conscionable abruptly arrived.'

The IOC said it made its eligibility decisions connected boxers based connected nan gender-related rules that applied astatine nan 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. 

Several sports person updated their gender rules complete nan past 3 years, including World Aquatics, World Athletics and nan International Cycling Union. The way assemblage besides past twelvemonth tightened rules connected athletes pinch differences successful activity development.

The IOC is successful complaint of boxing successful Paris because it has revoked nan Olympic position of nan IBA pursuing years of governance problems, a deficiency of financial transparency and galore perceived instances of corruption successful judging and refereeing.

The IBA is controlled by president Umar Kremlev, who is Russian. He brought successful Russian state-owned Gazprom arsenic its superior sponsor and moved overmuch of nan IBA´s operations to Russia.

It was nan IBA who disqualified some Ting and Khelif past year.