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 towards Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva to achieve the semi finals at 57kgs.
Borislav Georgiev, the Bulgarian boxer’s coach, confronted the press afterwards with a observe that learn: ‘I solely wish to play with ladies. I’m XX.’
Georgiev defined by way of an interpreter: “I wrote the message, however it comes from each single girl boxer within the event.”
Lin and Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif had been each reported to have returned chromosome exams 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 exams 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 exhibits that she or he has the Y chromosome she shouldn’t be right here.”
Georgiev was additionally aggrieved that the choice went towards 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 received on three of the 5 playing cards.
Colchester light-middleweight Lewis Richardson final night time ensured the Nice Britain staff’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 remaining three minutes to arrange a semi remaining towards Mexico’s Marco Verde, who outlasted Nishant Dev (India) in an thrilling conflict of southpaws.
Richardson faces Verde on Tuesday night time for a spot within the 71kgs remaining.
