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Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting shrugs off eligibility row to win featherweight gold medal in Paris Video games
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Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting shrugs off eligibility row to win featherweight gold medal in Paris Video games

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Lin Yu-Ting finally outclassed Poland’s Julia Szeremeta to win the Olympic featherweight closing at Roland Garros.

She sealed a 30-27 choice win for all 5 judges after three rounds.

Together with Algeria’s Imane Khelif, Lin has needed to face accusations about her eligibility to field within the Video games all through the event. However that storm of controversy has not stopped both Khelif or now Lin from successful Olympic gold.

Olympics 2024: Lin Yu-Ting shrugs off eligibility row to win featherweight gold medal in Paris Video games
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Lin blended aggression with long-range boxing

The Chinese language Taipei boxer advised a press convention: “As a elite athlete during the competition it’s important to shut myself off from social media and to focus.

“A number of the noises and a few of the information articles, after all I heard a few of the data by my coach however I did not pay an excessive amount of thoughts to it.

“I was invited by the IOC to compete in the Games, I focused on the Games. As for other issues I relied on my coach to answer the questions.”

How Lin received gold

On the opening bell Lin rushed out to assert the centre of the ring, letting her fists fly. Szeremeta, nevertheless, did skilfully bob underneath the pictures. However Lin stored up that busy begin, she clearly needed to stamp her authority on the competition and never let this chance slip away from her.

That strategy paid off, seeing her sweep the primary spherical. She took that benefit into the second.

Lin switched stances to field southpaw for a second at the beginning of that spherical, displaying off her expertise.

Szeremeta slipped underneath punches once more, however rearing again up one other back-hand proper caught her flush.

The Pole, although, slugged again and did land on Lin. The Taiwanese boxer then held her floor to fireside off punches. They traded blows however Lin obtained the higher of the temporary fire-fight and ultimately backed Szeremeta up.

Lin completed the spherical catching Szeremeta with a deft lead left hook.

With a commanding lead, Lin may field and transfer at vary, leaving Szeremeta to chase her and the bout to no avail.

“Every fight is not easy. Winning 5-0 might seem easy but behind that is a lot of practise and hard work,” Lin mentioned afterwards.

She, like Algeria’s Khelif, does meet the IOC’s eligibility standards although they had been each disqualified from the World Championships in 2023 with the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) ruling them out of boxing in girls’s classes.

Nonetheless the character of that eligibility take a look at stays unspecified and the IBA has a number of questions round its personal credibility that stay unanswered. IBA has been banned from operating the Olympic boxing event by the IOC attributable to corruption allegations and monetary transparency.

That has not prevented Lin and Khelif’s proper to field at Paris 2024 from being positioned underneath scrutiny. However regardless of that strain Lin has additionally managed to affix Khelif as an Olympic champion.

“I feel incredible. I want to thank everyone who has supported me and thanks to my team and everyone in Taiwan,” Lin mentioned.

“They gave me the power.”

Khelif information authorized criticism over on-line harassment

In the meantime, Khelif has filed a proper authorized criticism, citing being the sufferer of on-line harassment, her lawyer mentioned on Saturday.

Khelif, who received the gold medal within the girls’s welterweight class on Friday, has together with Lin, been the topic of heated debate on social media.

The 25-year-old’s lawyer Nabil Boudi advised Reuters the criticism was filed on Friday.

“All that is being said about me on social media is immoral. I want to change the minds of people around the world,” Khelif mentioned on Saturday.

Sky Sports activities+ has formally launched and can be built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app – giving Sky Sports activities clients entry to over 50 per cent extra stay sport this 12 months at no additional value.

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