Taiwan's Lin poses with gold medal in victory despite gender row

Lin Yu-ting joins fellow gender row boxer Imane Khelif in winning Olympic gold as she beats Julia Szeremeta in the women's featherweight final
Lin Yu-ting, one of the two boxers at the center of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics, left the stadium in the early hours of Sunday, August 11, after winning gold despite the controversy.

Gender row boxer Lin Yu-Ting reigned supreme and punched her way towards an Olympic gold medal to become the second woman here to hit her critics where it hurts.

Yu-Ting, 28, pummelled Poland's Julia Szeremeta, 20, over three rounds at Roland Garros to win via unanimous decision and join Imane Khelif of Algeria in successfully seeing off their opponents from outside the ring who claimed the pair were male and should have been barred from the Paris games.

Yu-Ting wiped the smile off her opponent's face with a blistering flurry of punches from the bell. Szeremeta, who will be 21 in a fortnight and whose nickname is 'Shady, attempted to derail her focus by smirking at her and dancing around the ring.


But Yu-Ting has rallied against a lot of attacks in these games and wasn't accepting it any more. She won in three rounds and fell to her knees as her opponent graciously congratulated her.

Whereas Yu-Ting's previous two opponents had made the 'X' sign with their index fingers, Szeremeta chose to make a heart shape to the crowd from the ring. Yu-Ting bowed repeatedly to the spectators and thanked them, pointing to her heart.