One day after a similar boxing match incident, a second biological male boxer competing in the Paris Olympics female division destroyed their opponent in the first few rounds of the battle, sparking considerable criticism of the event’s handling of transgender competitors.
Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, 28, stunned Uzbek competitor Sitora Turdibekova on Friday with three rounds of brutal punching that made headlines across the world due to its unbalanced nature.
Videos of the fight that have been making the rounds online show Lin hitting Turdibekova in the face and body, causing her to walk out from the third round with her head hanging in defeat. Despite having previously been disqualified by the International Boxing Association for failing their gender test, Lin was permitted to compete. When Lin was announced the winner, the two did not give each other an embrace or a congrats.
Certain analysts perceived the result as an unavoidable consequence of the International Olympic Committee’s decision to implement a permissive inclusion policy, which permitted Lin and Imane Khelif of Algeria to participate even though the IBA had banned them from competing in 2023. Rather, the IOC chose a more lenient set of regulations created by the IOC’s Paris 2024 Boxing Unit and revoked the boxing authority’s regulatory role over the sport.
When questioned about whether the committee is in any way accountable for the results of both matches, IOC spokesman Mark Adams avoided answering directly. “Let me just clarify that all competitors in the women’s division are adhering to the competition eligibility requirements. According to their passports, they are ladies, he informed the news source. Adams continued, “These athletes competed for many years in the past.” “They didn’t show up out of nowhere.”
To raise awareness of the plights of Turdibekova and Angela Carini, the female boxer who competed against Khelif, campaigners for women’s sports organized a 24-hour campaign. A Thursday post by former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, which received over 150,000 reposts, urged the X community to support Carini. Since then, she has shared footage of Lin’s battle and reshared a number of other statements criticizing the IOC for permitting both fights to go.
Despite having switched to female genders from birth, the IBA claimed that the warriors, who were both biologically male, had inherent physical advantages over their opponents since they carried XY chromosomes. The battle between Khelif and Carini came to an end in the 46th second when Carini was forced to retire to her corner by the forceful blows delivered by the Algerian fighter.
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