{"id":18048,"date":"2025-09-02T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:04:07","slug":"gender-row-olympic-boxer-lin-wont-compete-at-worlds-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18048","title":{"rendered":"Gender-row Olympic boxer Lin won&#8217;t compete at worlds, says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Taiwanese Olympic boxing gold medallist Lin Yu-ting will not compete at the world championships starting this week, Taiwan&#8217;s association told AFP on Tuesday, despite reportedly submitting her sex test results.<\/p>\n<p>Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were at the centre of a major gender row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they won titles in separate weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing said last month that women wanting to compete at the championships in Liverpool on September 4-14 would have to undergo mandatory sex testing under its new policy.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Lin had agreed to undergo the testing, her coach Tseng Tzu-chiang told AFP at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s boxing association said it submitted the results to World Boxing and had not received a response, the semi-official Central News Agency reported late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot allow the athlete to travel to the UK without any guarantee,&#8221; the association was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The association told AFP in a message on Tuesday that Lin &#8220;will not attend the world championships in Liverpool&#8221;, but did not give a reason or respond to AFP&#8217;s other questions.<\/p>\n<p>Lin&#8217;s coach Tseng did not respond to phone calls or messages.<\/p>\n<p>AFP has contacted World Boxing for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Under its policy, fighters over 18 who want to participate in a World Boxing-sanctioned competition need to take a PCR, or polymerase chain reaction genetic test, to determine their sex at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Lin and Khelif were excluded from the International Boxing Association&#8217;s (IBA) 2023 world championships after the IBA said they had failed sex eligibility tests.<\/p>\n<p>However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed them both to compete in Paris, saying they had been victims of &#8220;a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA&#8221;. Both went on to triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Khelif and Lin were subjected to attacks on social media, rumours about their biological sex and disinformation during the Games.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese Olympic boxing gold medallist Lin Yu-ting will not compete at the world championships starting this week, Taiwan&#8217;s association told AFP on Tuesday, despite reportedly submitting her sex test results. Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were at the centre of a major gender row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they won titles in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}