The Olympic champion from Taiwan has apparently undergone gender testing. Nevertheless, she will not be traveling to Liverpool.
Taiwanese Olympic boxing champion Lin Yuting will not participate in the World Championships in Liverpool. This was announced by the Taiwanese association to the AFP news agency. Just a few days ago, it was announced that the 29-year-old would undergo the gender test required by World Boxing for participation in the World Championships – unlike Imane Khelif, with whom she had been at the center of a gender debate at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Although the association had sent the results of the gender test to World Boxing, as reported by the Taiwanese Central News Agency, it had not yet received a response. “We cannot allow the athlete to travel to the UK without any guarantees,” the association said, without giving further reasons. Lin’s coach Tseng did not respond to inquiries from the news agency.
Lin and Khelif had been excluded from the 2023 World Championships by the now-suspended IBA association for allegedly failing a testosterone test. However, they were allowed to compete in Paris because the IOC only considered the gender stated in their passports. Like Lin, Khelif won the gold medal in her weight class, accompanied by attacks and a disinformation campaign by conservative circles that portrayed her as a “man fighting against women.”
The new amateur world association World Boxing, which is hosting its first world championships in Liverpool (September 4-14) and is also organizing the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, insists on gender testing.
Unlike Lin, Khelif chose to take her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and demanded that the decision be overturned, but now neither of them will be competing in southwest England. The CAS rejected the request, filed on August 5, to suspend the required gender test until the case is heard.
