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Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting reaches Olympic featherweight closing amid ongoing eligibility row
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Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting reaches Olympic featherweight closing amid ongoing eligibility row

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published August 7, 2024
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Lin Yu-Ting, one of many boxers on the centre of a bitter eligibility row on the Olympic Video games, has reached the ladies’s featherweight closing.

She beat Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman on factors of their 57kgs semi-final at Roland Garros in Paris on Wednesday.

Taiwanese boxer Lin and Algeria’s Imane Khelif have been disqualified from the World Championships final yr as a consequence of an unspecified eligibility take a look at administered by IBA, the boxing federation that has been banned from working the Olympic match by the IOC.

Each had boxed in a number of bouts on the Worlds earlier than IBA disqualified them mid-competition, and each Lin and Khelif meet the IOC’s standards for competing on the Video games. Nonetheless that hasn’t prevented an issue from erupting on social media, concentrating on each boxers.

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Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting reaches Olympic featherweight closing amid ongoing eligibility row

Imane Khelif reaches the Olympics girls’s boxing 66kg closing after beating her Thai opponent Janjaem Suwannapheng and obtained great assist from the gang watching on

Regardless of all of the scrutiny and strain, neither has let it disrupt their development via the match. Lin booked her place within the 57kgs closing with a unanimous choice victory over Turkey’s Yildiz Kahraman.

Yildiz Kahraman rushed ahead seeking to negate Lin’s benefit in top and attain, swinging on the tall Taiwanese boxer. However as soon as Lin had secured the primary spherical on the judges’ playing cards she made certain to maneuver and field at vary, clipping her opponent with neat lead hooks and popping in her jab within the final spherical as concepts and vitality appeared to leak out of the Turkish fighter.

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Imane Khelif has known as for an finish to on-line abuse

The group within the spectacular area gave Lin an amazing ovation when she arrived for the competition and have been even louder in her assist when her victory was introduced. Lin bowed deeply to the viewers as she departed the sphere of play.

Yildiz Kahraman nevertheless was pictured after the bout crossing her fingers to make an ‘x’ signal. When requested to elucidate the gesture her solely reply in English was “no comment”.

Turkey's Esra Yildiz Kahraman does an 'X' sign with their hands following defeat to Chinese Taipei's Lin Yu-Ting
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Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman does an ‘X’ signal with their arms following defeat to Chinese language Taipei’s Lin Yu-Ting

Lin didn’t handle it afterwards.

“I will use everything I’ve learned in my life to do my best in the next match,” she stated. “I am one fight closer to my goal of the gold medal. I really enjoyed that fight.

“Each athlete right here is among the many greatest on the planet, so I should do my greatest to organize for the ultimate.

“The feeling of entering the gold medal match is one of gratitude to myself for making it this far. After going out in the first round of the Tokyo Olympics, it’s been a tough journey to reach the finals.

“Thanks to all of the supporters who’ve supported and inspired me alongside the best way. I’ll give my utmost effort to repay them on the closing.”

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IOC president Thomas Bach says they won’t participate in a ‘politically motivated battle’, calling the remedy of the Olympic boxers on social media ‘completely unacceptable’

Lin will field Poland’s Julia Szeremeta within the 57kgs closing on Saturday. Within the different semi-final on Wednesday Szeremeta acquired a shock choice win over the Philippines’ Nesty Petecio, a powerful world champion who was arguably the main contender for gold on this weight class.

Petecio defeated Lin within the final Olympic Video games.

Exiting this match with a bronze medal, Petecio did voice her assist for Lin’s participation within the Video games, saying that she ought to be allowed to field.

“Yes, she is one of the very tough contenders here,” Petecio stated. “I was hoping to see her in the final, but sadly not now.”

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