The main character of Boxing at the Paris Olympic Games 2024 is Imane Khelif, Algerian boxer. A year ago, she was disqualified from the World Women's Boxing Championship 2023. According to information from the International Boxing Association (IBA), they excluded Khelif because she had a male sex chromosome.
Despite being removed by IBA, Imane Khelif was then attended the Paris Olympic qualifying round, and the Olympics because IBA no longer managed the Olympic level boxing. Playing in a weight of 66kg, Imane Khelif has defeated every opponent to win the final gold medal.
It is controversial like the iMane Khelif, Lin Yu Ting, Chinese Taipei fighter. She was also disqualified from the World Women's Boxing Championship 2023. But just a few months later, this boxer attended ASIAD, won gold and had tickets directly to Paris this year.
Lin Yu Ting is ranked No. 1 seed in the weight of 57kg. She realized her strength with 4 consecutive victories. In the final, Chinese Taipei fighter Thang convinced Julia Szeremeta (Poland) with a score of 5-0. All 5 inspections dot Lin Yu Ting to win all 3 rounds.
The allegations of male gender but competing in the female boxing made Meane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting suffer a lot of criticism at the Paris Olympic Games. In the opening match of Khelif, the opponent of Italian Angela Carini gave up after only 46 seconds. The female boxer who won the world gold medal said she asked for a retreat because “her whole life has never been punched like that.”
As for Lin Yu Ting, opponents encountered her like Svetlana Staneva (Bulgaria, quarterfinals) and Esra Yildiz (Türkiye, semi -finals) both haunted against. At the end of the match against Lin Yu Ting, they were the X symbol before the media, referring to themselves as a female athlete, and boycotted people with biological gender as male but fighting for women's boxing.