David K. Li is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting in the women’s division. Lin won by unanimous decision at Roland-Garros stadium, with the five judges scoring it 10-9 in all three rounds for the fighter representing Chinese Taipei.
Khelif and Lin have competed for years in women’s events, including at the Tokyo Olympics, and there is no indication that they identify as transgender or intersex, the latter referring to people born with sex characteristics that do not fit strictly into the male-female gender binary. Questions surrounding their gender stemmed from a decision by the Russian-led International Boxing Association to disqualify them at last year’s Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi.
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