Yu-Ting Lin at the centre of latest Olympic eruption

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 Area.

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 be aware that learn: ‘I solely wish to play with girls. I’m XX.’

Georgiev defined by an interpreter: “I wrote the message, nevertheless it comes from each single girl boxer within the match.”

Lin and Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif had been each reported to have returned chromosome assessments that learn XY eventually 12 months’s Girls’s World Championship in New Delhi.

Girls usually have two X chromosomes, whereas males usually 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 assessments in New Delhi.

IBA Chief Govt Chris Roberts advised BBC Sport yesterday that  XY male chromosomes had been present in “each instances.”

Georgiev stated: “I’m not a medical one that 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 stated: “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 workforce’s first boxing medal with a factors win over Jordanian slugger Zeyad Eashash.

Richardson boxed his means 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 in opposition to 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.