By Matt Bozeat
THE gender row on the Paris Olympics erupted once more after Taiwanese boxer Yu-Ting Lin secured a medal on the Paris Nord Enviornment.
Lin swept the final two rounds on all playing cards in opposition to Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva to succeed in the semi finals at 57kgs.
Borislav Georgiev, the Bulgarian boxer’s coach, confronted the press afterwards with a word that learn: ‘I solely need to play with girls. I’m XX.’
Georgiev defined by way of an interpreter: “I wrote the message, but it surely comes from each single girl boxer within the event.”
Lin and Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif had been each reported to have returned chromosome checks that learn XY eventually 12 months’s Girls’s World Championship in New Delhi.
Girls sometimes have two X chromosomes, whereas males sometimes have an X and Y chromosome.
The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation, at loggerheads with the Worldwide Olympic Committee after they had been stripped of Olympic recognition, gave the checks in New Delhi.
IBA Chief Government Chris Roberts informed BBC Sport yesterday that XY male chromosomes had been present in “each instances.”
Georgiev mentioned: “I’m not a medical one who ought to say if Lin might compete or not right here, however when the check reveals that she or he has the Y chromosome she shouldn’t be right here.”
Georgiev was additionally aggrieved that the choice went in opposition to his boxer, who beat Eire’s Michaela Walsh within the earlier spherical.
He mentioned: “The judges stole the win.”
Lin appeared a transparent winner after a decent opening spherical that she gained on three of the 5 playing cards.
Colchester light-middleweight Lewis Richardson final evening ensured the Nice Britain crew’s first boxing medal with a factors win over Jordanian slugger Zeyad Eashash.
Richardson boxed his method right into a 20-18 lead on three playing cards after two rounds after which held off Eashash’s cost within the ultimate three minutes to arrange a semi ultimate in opposition to Mexico’s Marco Verde, who outlasted Nishant Dev (India) in an thrilling conflict of southpaws.
Richardson faces Verde on Tuesday evening for a spot within the 71kgs ultimate.
