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Gender row boxer Lin Yu-ting looks to follow Imane Khelif into an Olympic final and a shot at gold as she fights in semi-final tonight - as Taiwan threatens legal action over eligibility claims
An Olympic boxer who has been at the centre of an intense gender row is preparing to enter the ring tonight for a chance to reach the featherweight final and have a shot at gold.
Lin Yu-ting is competing in Paris after being banned from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA), which claimed she had failed gender eligibility tests.
The Taiwanese fighter is hoping to follow Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif to a final in her category, a boxer who was also banned by the IBA and has received vicious attacks over her participation in the games.
The IBA's chief executive said last week that male XY chromosomes were found in 'both cases' - but the association has failed to provide proof and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has questioned the accuracy of the tests.
Now Taiwan's sports administration is threatening legal action against the controversial boxing organisation over its 'continued publication of false information' regarding Lin's eligibility.
Lin Yu-ting is competing in Paris after being banned from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA)
Tonight's bout comes after the 28-year-old beat Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva by unanimous decision earlier this week
The Russia-led IBA has been suspended by the IOC since 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, and judging, and was stripped of its status as a regulator last year.
It has repeatedly claimed that the IOC is putting female athletes at risk by allowing Lin and Khelif to participate in the games, as it prevented them from doing previously.
Both Lin and Khelif were regsitered women at birth, and the IOC has strongly defended their participation in the games.
President Thomas Bach said that there was 'never any doubt' that the pair are women.
'We have two boxers who are born as a woman, who have been raised as a woman, who have a passport as a woman and who have competed for many years as a woman. This is the clear definition of a woman.'
But the IBA doubled down on its claims on Monday, with its boss, Umar Kremlev, saying during a video conference call from a Moscow office that the athletes had been found to have 'men's level of testosterone'.
Meanwhile IBA CEO Chris Roberts, former head of Scottish boxing, said that the athletes had chromosome tests rather than one for testosterone.
The Taiwanese sports administration has since expressed its anger at the organisation's continued commentary on Lin's case in a statement yesterday.
Khelif came under huge criticism after she beat Angela Carini within 46 seconds last week
A spokesman said: 'The sports administration seriously protests the International Boxing Association's continued publication of false information, obscuring the facts, and attempting to interfere with the normal conduct of the event regardless of the rights and interests of athletes.
'The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee has also appointed a lawyer to issue a warning letter to the IBA. It reserves the right to take recourse and will file a lawsuit if necessary.'
Lin will face Turkey's Esra Yildiz Kahraman in Wednesday's semi-finals, and is guaranteed a bronze medal even if she loses.
The bout comes after the 28-year-old beat Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva by unanimous decision earlier this week.
The Bulgarian fighter, 34, left the arena shouting 'no, no' and making a cross with her fingers, and her coach suggested Lin should not be allowed to compete.
'I'm not a medical person who should say if Lin could compete or not here, but when the test shows that he or she has the Y chromosome she should not be here,' Borislav Georgiev told BBC Sport.
Following the bout, Lin refused to be drawn into the ongoing controversy, and said she was instead focusing her energy on the fight.
'I have received many messages of support from my country and from people in Paris. I thank them,' she said. 'But I have not been able to read them because I have shut down my social media.
'I am going to keep going and going to the gold medal. I have won a bronze medal, but I want to win the gold.'