Paris Olympics braces for new female boxing storm: Previously disqualified Taiwan fighter Lin Yu-Ting gets set to take on Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova - as controversy swirls around Imane Khelif and even IOC admit gender rules are 'a minefield'

Women's boxing will beryllium nether nan spotlight again coming arsenic Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting prepares to measurement into nan ringing to conflict Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova.

The conflict betwixt two-time world champion Lin, 28, and Turdibekova, 22, has sparked contention aft Lin grounded a gender eligibility trial astatine past year's World Championships.

Lin - who has travel into nan Olympics arsenic apical seed - mislaid her bronze badge aft she grounded to meet nan Inerantional Boxing Association's unspecified eligibility criteria.

Algeria's Imane Khelif, 25, who yesterday won against Italy's Angela Carini successful a bout lasting conscionable 46 seconds, was besides disqualified hours earlier her golden badge lucifer astatine nan aforesaid competition.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) called nan move into question, describing it arsenic an 'arbitrary' determination that did not travel 'due process'. They later admitted that gender rules are a 'minefield'.

All eyes are connected Lin's bout pinch Turdibekova, pursuing yesterday's melodramatic conflict that saw Carini discontinue successful little than a infinitesimal pinch Khelife landing conscionable 1 punch.

Abandoning nan fight, Italian threw her helmet connected nan floor, collapsed to her knees successful tears and told her coach: 'It's not right, it's not right.'

Lin had won a bronze badge successful nan women's featherweight title astatine nan World Championships earlier she was stripped of nan prize past year.

She had won 3 fights earlier losing successful nan semi-finals to Kazakhstan's Karina Ibragimova.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) - who person been stripped of nickname amid a bid of governance issues - later stripped Lin of nan medal, pinch nan organisation stating nan boxer had grounded to meet eligibility requirements.

Khelif's triumph yesterday was marred by controversy, pinch her Italian force withdrawing successful tears aft conscionable 46 seconds and telling her corner: 'It's not fair.'

During nan fight, Carini was deed twice, suffered a suspected surgery chemoreceptor and hardly threw a punch earlier telling her corner: 'It's not fair.'

She past sank to her knees, hit nan canvas successful vexation and refused to shingle Khelif's hand.

After nan one-sided 66kg class bout ended, Carini, besides 25, said she quit nan match to 'save my life'.

The conflict has attracted backlash pinch golden medal-winning Team GB boxer boxer Nicola Adams posting: 'I guidelines wit Angela Carini'.

The trailblazer slammed nan determination to fto nan conflict spell up arsenic 'unfair and dangerous'.

She said: 'After years of fighting for women's boxing to moreover beryllium successful nan Olympics and past each nan training they spell done to get location it was difficult to watch different combatant beryllium forced [to] springiness up connected her Olympic dreams.

'People not calved arsenic biologic women, that person been done antheral puberty should not beryllium capable to complete [sic] successful women's sport. Not only is this unfair it's dangerous!' 

There is nary grounds aliases declare that either athletes person been done antheral puberty. The brace were ruled ineligible aft they 'failed to meet eligibility rules, pursuing a trial conducted by an independent laboratory'.

Sex Matters head of campaigns Fiona McAnena said nan International Olympic Committee, which oversees nan Games, should beryllium 'ashamed'. 

She said: 'It's grossly unfair that astatine nan pinnacle of her sporting career, Italian boxer Angela Carini had to concede for her ain safety.

'The look of sheer symptom and devastation successful her look astatine that infinitesimal should beryllium capable to extremity nan absurd and vulnerable spectacle of men successful women's athletics erstwhile and for all.

'People are rightly outraged, and nan IOC should beryllium ashamed, but they look to beryllium shameless arsenic this is their argumentation successful action.

'Male advantage utilized against women makes astir each athletics unfair, and immoderate sports unsafe, including boxing. This is still being played retired successful galore sports worldwide.'

Bosses astatine nan IOC are now facing a furious backlash pursuing nan fight, pinch erstwhile Prime Minister Liz Truss blasting nan clash.

Writing connected Twitter, nan ex-Tory MP said: 'When will this madness stop? Men cannot go women. Why is nan British Government not objecting to this?'

British Olympics swimming leader Sharron Davies besides waded into nan controversy, raging: 'This is shocking. The IOC are a bloody disgrace. In effect legalising beating up females. This must stop!!! What nan hell's nan matter pinch them?'

While Harry Potter writer JK Rowling branded nan title 'insanity'. In a station yesterday, nan gender-critical writer wrote: 'What will it return to extremity this insanity? A female boxer near pinch life-altering injuries? A female boxer killed?'

Posting a video of nan fight, nan writer added: 'Watch this (whole thread), past explicate why you're OK pinch a man beating a female successful nationalist for your entertainment. This isn't sport. From nan bullying cheat successful reddish each nan measurement up to nan organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling successful their powerfulness complete women.'

And speaking to MailOnline, sports intelligence Professor Ross Tucker said: 'Would you let a 90kg combatant to conflict against a 60kg fighter?

'Because that's much aliases little what nan quality is successful spot and powerfulness betwixt antheral and female boxers.'

Elon Musk, nan proprietor of nan societal media level X, endorsed efforts to get a run successful support of Carini trending.

American swimmer Riley Gaines, who has campaigned for women's authorities successful her sport, wrote connected nan platform: 'Men don't beryllium successful women's sports. #IStandWithAngelaCarini Let's get it trending.'

Musk quoted Gaines' station and replied: 'Absolutely.' 

But nan IBA was stripped of its nickname by nan IOC past twelvemonth complete governance and finance issues, pinch nan Olympic assemblage moving nan boxing title successful Paris.

The IOC said successful a connection yesterday: 'These 2 athletes were nan victims of a abrupt and arbitrary determination by nan IBA.

'Towards nan extremity of nan IBA World Championships successful 2023, they were abruptly disqualified without immoderate owed process.

'According to nan IBA minutes disposable connected their website, this determination was initially taken solely by nan IBA Secretary General and CEO.'

Some sports person constricted nan levels of testosterone allowed for athletes competing successful women's competition, while others prohibition everyone who has been done antheral puberty.

Differences of Sexual Disorder are a group of uncommon conditions involving genes, hormones and reproductive organs.

Some group pinch DSDs are raised arsenic female but person XY activity chromosomes and humor testosterone levels successful nan antheral range.

The IOC said nan rules of eligibility were based connected those of nan Tokyo Games successful 2021 and could not beryllium changed during a competition.

The governing assemblage added: 'The IOC is saddened by nan maltreatment that nan 2 athletes are presently receiving. Every personification has nan correct to believe athletics without discrimination.'

But successful its ain statement, nan IBA condemned 'inconsistencies successful eligibility' astatine nan Paris Games, adding: 'Both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting station testing, did not meet nan required eligibility criteria to compete wrong nan female class of our respective events.

'The urgent quality of nan determination (to disqualify nan boxers) was justified, arsenic nan information of our boxers is our apical priority.'

In a newly-unearthed question and reply filmed up of nan Games, Khelif opened up astir bouncing backmost from her prohibition complete elevated testosterone levels and declared: 'I wanted to show nan full world what a brave female Imane Khelif is.' 

Khelif's information successful nan arena has been a root of contention aft she was disqualified from nan Women's World Boxing Championships past year. 

The Olympics website noted that Khelif had been disqualified hours earlier a golden badge bout against China's nan Liu successful New Delhi aft her elevated levels of testosterone grounded to meet nan eligibility criteria.

The Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) deed backmost by claiming nan disqualification was portion of a 'conspiracy' to extremity them from winning a golden badge and said 'medical reasons' were down precocious testosterone levels.

Speaking retired pursuing her loss, Carini revealed she discontinue to 'safeguard my life', adding: 'I couldn't transportation on. I person a large symptom successful my chemoreceptor and I said, 'Stop'. It's amended to debar keeping going. My chemoreceptor started dripping from nan first hit.

'It could beryllium nan lucifer of my life but, successful that moment, I had to safeguard my life, too. I felt to do this, I didn't person immoderate fear, I don't person immoderate fearfulness of nan ringing aliases to get hit.

'I fought very often successful nan nationalist team. I train pinch my brother. I've ever fought against men, but I felt excessively overmuch symptom today.'

After nan lucifer was stopped, nan referee raised Khelif's manus successful nan air. But a visibly furious Carini yanked her ain manus distant from nan conflict charismatic and walked off.

During nan accelerated fight, Carini was rocked by 2 punches from Khelif and said nan ferocious unit of nan blows made it 'impossible to continue'.

Ignoring nan Algerian aft calling a halt to nan bout, nan Italian combatant past plunged to her knees and burst into tears - later saying she said she had ne'er felt specified beardown blows successful a title before.

Speaking aft nan match, nan heartbroken Italian said: 'I'm utilized to suffering. I've ne'er taken a punch for illustration that, it's intolerable to continue. I'm cipher to opportunity it's illegal.

'I sewage into nan ringing to fight. But I didn't consciousness for illustration it anymore aft nan first minute. I started to consciousness a beardown symptom successful my nose. I didn't springiness up, but a punch wounded excessively overmuch and truthful I said enough. I'm leaving pinch my caput held high.'

She said she did not locomotion distant from nan conflict arsenic a protestation against her opponent's inclusion, but that was a determination for nan Olympics to consider.

Asked why she knelt astatine nan extremity of nan match, she said it was for her precocious father, who died successful 2021, earlier adding: 'I americium sorry not to person taken Italy connected to nan podium.'

She was taken distant for aesculapian appraisal to analyse nan seriousness of her facial injuries which included a bruised nose.

Speaking earlier this week, International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams said: 'Everyone competing successful nan women's class is complying pinch nan title eligibility rules.'

He added: 'They are women successful their passports and it's stated that this is nan case, that they are female.'

Prior to 2021, nan IOC group thresholds for nan maximum magnitude of testosterone — nan 'male' activity hormone — competitors successful women's events could have. These were picked up successful humor tests, akin to ones for doping.

Rules connected testosterone limits had been previosuly brought into crisp attraction by nan very nationalist and celebrated lawsuit of Caster Semenya.

Semenya has a information which intends her assemblage people produces higher levels of testosterone than normal for women.

She became incapable to compete astatine Tokyo successful 2020 aft World Athletics brought successful caller rules independently of nan IOC astatine nan time.

IOC's ain testosterone monitoring policies were halted 3 years agone and replaced pinch a argumentation of 'fairness, inclusion and non-discrimination connected nan ground of gender place and activity variation'.

The IOC now provides individual sporting bodies successful each state pinch 'ten guiding principles' they tin usage to make their ain policies.

This arguable archive states that athletes pinch 'sex variations', different word for DSDs, person 'no presumption of advantage' and that they should beryllium allowed to compete successful nan class of their gender identity.

There are exceptions, pinch model stating that an 'evidence-based approach' tin beryllium utilized to exclude athletes who person a 'consistent unfair disproportionate advantage' aliases if location is an 'unpreventable risk' to nan information of different athletes.

Federations that govern rugby, way and field, swimming and cycling person each introduced rules successful immoderate shape to reside biologic males successful women's sport, though nan nonstop specifications of policies vary.

And boxing did arsenic well, pinch nan International Boxing Association (IAB) requiring athletes to acquisition 'gender assessment'.

Though it doesn't item nan nonstop quality of these assessments, it is this trial that Khelif and Lin grounded past twelvemonth astatine nan IAB's Women's World Boxing Championships successful New Delhi.

The IOC created a caller body, nan Paris Boxing Unit (PBU), to find eligibility for competitors.

Documents from nan PBU make nary mention of gender aliases activity testing for antheral aliases female events, though they do group limits for nan property of competitors, a passport being an acceptable ID for athletes and requiring boxers successful nan women's class to state if they are pregnant.

Defending its determination to o.k. Khelif and Lin arsenic women nan IOC's Mr Adams added: 'These athletes person competed galore times earlier for galore years. They haven't conscionable abruptly arrived.'

But sports intelligence Professor Tucker, said nan absence of clear argumentation by nan IOC successful this area had allowed this business to occur.

'Last twelvemonth [Khelif and Lin] did not meet eligibility requirements and nan only logic they do now is nan assemblage that did norm them ineligible has been moved aside,' he said.

'It's owed to a vacuum of policy, there's nary argumentation now.'