Lin Yu-ting, a boxer from Taiwan, reached the semi-finals of the women’s lightweight section, becoming the next boxer in the female registration category to win a prize at the Paris Olympics.
The 28-year-old overcome Russian Svetlana Staneva by unanimous choice.
A clearly upset Staneva, 34, left the arena making a bridge with her hands, shouting “no, no”.
Staneva frequently complained about Lin’s elbow usage, which made it possible for a feisty argument to get heated at times.
Before the match, the Bulgarian Boxing Federation said it” highly related” Lin’s membership.
Lin is competing in Paris despite being barred from the International Boxing Association ( IBA ) for the previous year’s World Championships ( Womane Khelif ), just like Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif, who advanced on Saturday.
There has been much debate about whether or not the soldiers have passed female registration testing at the Worlds.
Lin may experience Brazil’s 2023 Pan American Games hero Jucielen Romeu or Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman in Wednesday’s semi-finals.
She did win a bronze medal yet if she loses.
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The couple met in the quarter-finals of last year’s World Championships with Lin winning before she was disqualified. As a result, Staneva was promoted to iron medallist.
The IBA said Lin, like Khelif, had “failed to fulfill the eligibility requirements for participating in the women’s competition, because set and laid out” in its rules.
IBA CEO Chris Roberts claimed XY chromosomes were discovered in “both circumstances” in an appointment with BBC athletics director Dan Roan on Thursday.
But the IOC, which runs boxing at the Olympics and suspended the Russia-led IBA because of fears over its finances, management, morality, refereeing and judging in 2019, has raised concerns over the reliability of the exams.
There was “never any fear” that the pair were women, according to Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, before on Saturday.
After the IBA announced it would hold a press event “dedicated to the precise explanation of the reasons for the expulsion” of Khelif and Lin, the situation may turn around on Monday.
Khelif conflicts in her semi-final a day later.