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The participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in the female boxing event caused controversy as they had been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The disqualifications came as consequence of the IBA stating that they failed to meet ...
In December 2012, she tried out for the first time for the national women's boxing team by competing in the under-48 kg light flyweight category in the National Amateur Boxing Championships, which doubled as the 2013 first national qualifying round. The 28-year-old was the oldest participant at the national championships with a 17 to 34 age limit.
But the International Olympic Committee has stood firmly with Khelif and Yu-ting, who on Friday won her fight in the women’s 57kg category against Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova to reach the ...
Either the women’s boxing competition features two fighters with an unfair advantage — or at least were previously disqualified from competition by the International Boxing Association for ...
Taipei's Lin Yu Ting, red, takes a punch from Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova in the Women's 57kg boxing match. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
In basketball, Olympic Council of Asia's eligibility rule on naturalized players, which contradicted the eligibility rule set by FIBA, became controversial as such rule disqualified Quincy Davis, a US-born player playing for the Chinese Taipei team, and Andray Blatche, a naturalized player of the Philippines, from participating in the tournament. [6]
Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting celebrates after defeating Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva in their women's 57 kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Paris, France ...
Choi Hyun-mi (Korean: 최현미; born November 7, 1990) is a South Korean female professional boxer.She is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBA female super-featherweight title from 2013 to 2023 and previously the WBA female featherweight title from 2008 to 2013.