Second gender row boxer Lin Yu-Ting is GUARANTEED an Olympic medal after winning featherweight quarter-final amid eligibility furore

The 2nd boxer astatine nan centre of nan Olympics gender statement has guaranteed herself a medal.

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting defeated her opponent, Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva, via a unanimous determination this greeting to book a spot successful nan semi-finals successful Paris and a minimum associated 3rd place.

Yu-Ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif were banned from International Boxing Association World Championships past twelvemonth for reportedly failing a gender test.

However, some person been cleared to conflict successful nan female class by nan IOC successful nan French superior aft nan Russian-led IBA was stripped of nan correct to tally boxing astatine nan Games.

Yu-Ting, 28, shook hands pinch Staneva pursuing nan bout, pinch nan Bulgarian past holding nan statement unfastened for her exit successful a motion of respect.

After victory, Yu-Ting said that she had closed down her societal media successful ray of a barrage of online abuse.

‘It was a very uneasy step,’ she said. ‘Winning this lucifer doesn’t mean I tin relax. I’ve received a batch of supportive messages. I haven’t publication them because I unopen down my societal media. The full organization of Taiwan are supporting maine truthful I americium going to return that spot to hopefully spell each nan measurement to nan end.’

Staneva’s coach suggested that his fighter’s force should not beryllium taking part. ‘I'm not a aesculapian personification truthful I shouldn't opportunity if Lin should compete aliases not,’ he said. ‘But erstwhile nan trial shows she has Y (male) chromosomes, she could not beryllium here.’

It was not only revenge for Yu-Ting, 28, against her objectors but besides complete Staneva who was awarded her bronze badge astatine nan World Championships successful New Delhi past year.

Despite Yu-Ting beating Staneva, 34, successful India, their bout consequence was overturned aft nan Taiwan boxer faced doubts complete her gender and nan conflict declared a ‘no contest.’

But this greeting Yu-Ting was declared nan unanimous victor and was warmly greeted by Olympic fans wrong nan North Paris Arena.

Yu-Ting said: ‘I person received galore messages of support from my state and from group successful Paris. I convey them.

‘But I person not been capable to publication them because I person unopen down my societal media.

‘I americium going to support going and going to nan golden medal. I person won a bronze medal, but I want to triumph nan gold.’

She made nary remark connected nan contention surrounding her engagement successful nan Olympics.

Yu-Ting, who stands astatine 5ft 9in, was registered female astatine birth, arsenic was Khelif who has a passport arsenic a female.

Olympic chiefs person defended nan engagement successful Paris 2024 of some Khelif and Yu-Ting who began boxing astatine nan property of 13 to protect her mother from home abuse.

The boxer, now guaranteed a bronze badge and will conflict towards gold, underwent further tests by Taiwan’s sports administrators earlier nan Olympics which confirmed her eligibility aft past year’s disqualification.

Yu-Ting’s Olympic officials called nan accusations discriminatory and declared them a deliberate effort to undermine nan boxer’s intelligence state.

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 International Boxing Association 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 its 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.

However Olympic officials opportunity nan matter regarding nan 2 boxers is simply a ‘minefield’ and that nary forensic and unquestionable technological grounds has been provided to beryllium some athletes were not women.

IOC main Bach said: ‘We are talking astir women's boxing. We person 2 boxers who are calved arsenic a woman, who were raised arsenic women, who person passport arsenic women, who person competed for galore years arsenic women. This is nan clear meaning of a woman.'

But nan IBA familial tests showed that Khelif and Yu-Ting person antheral XY chromosomes successful their DNA, but neither are transgender.

Celebrities specified arsenic JK Rowling, British Olympian swimmer Sharron Davies and double Olympic golden medal-winning ex-boxer Nicola Adams person spoken retired against their engagement successful women's sport.

Davies said: '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?'.

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss asked: 'When will this madness stop? Men cannot go women. Why is nan British Government not objecting to this?'

But Olympics chiefs person slammed what they described arsenic an online ‘hate’ run against nan boxers.

Khelif’s quarter-final force Anna Luca Hamori of Hungry had posted a image of a ‘beauty and a beast’ successful nan tally up to their bout and said she did not mind fighting ‘a man aliases a woman.’

The image later vanished from her societal media profile.

The Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee revenge an charismatic title pinch nan IOC to protestation nan online harassment of Khelif that amounts to ' a superior usurpation of sports morals and nan Olympic Charter by 1 of nan participants successful nan boxing tourney astatine nan Paris Olympics, according to a connection that was posted connected nan committee's Facebook page.

The connection did not sanction nan boxer who has allegedly posted disparaging comments of nan Algerian, but warned that nan IOC 'has issued a last informing to delete each station that concerns our heroine Iman Khalif.'

It added: ' We reserve nan correct to prosecute everyone who participated successful nan heinous run against our heroine Imane Khelif.'