Two boxers who had been beforehand disqualified for failing to fulfill eligibility necessities to compete in ladies’s matches final yr will compete within the Paris Olympics.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting will compete for a medal within the ladies’s 66-kilogram and ladies’s 57-kilogram matches. Nonetheless, each opponents confronted controversy in 2023.
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Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating Mariem Homrani Ep Zayan in the course of the Tokyo Olympic Video games on July 30, 2021. (Buda Mendes/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Khelif and Lin had been disqualified in the course of the ladies’s world championships in New Delhi in March 2023. The Worldwide Boxing Affiliation stated each fighters failed to fulfill eligibility standards.
Khelif was disqualified after a take a look at discovered a excessive degree of testosterone, Reuters reported, citing Algerian media. The boxer advised Algerian TV that the choice was part of a “massive conspiracy.”
In accordance to AFP, Khelif was advised she had “traits that imply I can not field with ladies.”
The Algerian Olympic Committee stated on the time Khelif was disqualified for medical causes.
Yu-Ting Lin, proper, competes towards Jucielen Romeu in the course of the Girls’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, on Could 16, 2022. (Mehmet Eser/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photographs)
Lin’s bronze medal was stripped after failing to fulfill IBA eligibility standards, which precipitated an uproar in her camp.
IBA president Umar Kremlin defined the choice on the time, in line with Russia’s Tass Information Company.
“Primarily based on DNA exams, we recognized a variety of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as ladies. Based on the outcomes of the exams, it was proved that they’ve XY chromosomes. Such athletes had been excluded from competitors,” Kremlin stated.
Reduxx first famous the matchups.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee reduce ties with the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation in 2023 over considerations about its reliance on Russia’s Gazprom.
A laser present is projected from the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the course of the opening ceremony of the Summer season Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Picture/Brian Inganga, Pool)
World Boxing shaped in 2023 out of the dispute.
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Khelif will battle Italy’s Angela Carini within the spherical of 16. Lin will face the winner of a battle between Marcelat Sakobi Matshu and Sitora Turdibekova.
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