Lin Yu-ting cleared for World Boxing return in fem...

Olympic gold medallist Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to competitors at World Boxing occasions following a overview of her intercourse eligibility.

The 30-year-old from Taiwan was on the centre of a fierce ​gender-eligibility row alongside Algerian Imane ‌Khelif on the Paris Video games in 2024, the place each ​boxers gained Olympic gold.

Lin and Khelif had been disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by earlier world governing physique the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA).

The IBA was stripped of its standing by the Worldwide Olympic Committee previous to Paris, the place the IOC ran boxing competitions and each Lin and Khelif met the eligibility guidelines required on the time.

World Boxing took over as the game’s governing physique final 12 months, and it carried out a intercourse eligibility coverage in August, requiring all fighters to take a one-time genetic take a look at designed to determine the presence of a Y chromosome.

Lin has been absent from a number of worldwide competitions because the introduction of the take a look at however, following an attraction from Taiwan’s federation, World Boxing has since introduced Lin is eligible to compete – beginning with the Asian Boxing Championships in Mongolia from March 29 to April 10.

World Boxing did not specify the outcomes of Lin’s take a look at, however mentioned in an announcement: “We are able to verify that the boxer is eligible to compete in ⁠the feminine class at World Boxing ​competitions.

“(We) ​admire the way in which they’ve approached ​the attraction course of and their acknowledgement of ⁠World Boxing’s requirement to make sure that its eligibility coverage, which is designed to ship security ⁠and sporting integrity, has been ​accurately carried out and adopted.”

Lin and Khelif ​haven’t competed in official worldwide occasions because the Olympics, with the latter saying earlier this 12 months she would keen to take World Boxing’s new intercourse take a look at, if it could enable her to defend her Olympic gold on the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles.