Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan has clinched her first Olympic medal in front of a crowd that chanted her name at the Paris Games.

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan clinched her first Olympic medal Sunday in front of a crowd that chanted her name at the Paris Games, one day after fellow boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria secured one as well following days of online abuse and intense scrutiny about their participation.

Lin defeated Svetlana Kamenova Staneva of Bulgaria in a women’s 57-kilogram quarterfinal, earning her second straight unanimous decision and advancing to the division’s semifinal round to ensure she will win at least a bronze medal.

Lin and Khelif have been at the center of a clash over gender identity and regulations in sports, as critics have brought up their disqualification from the world championships last year after the banned International Boxing Association claimed they failed unspecified eligibility tests for women’s competition.

  • Snowflake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    See that’s one implication. Just because people die it means we shouldn’t do things to prevent this? That’s the second time you’ve said people die all the time anyways. It’s Like who cares people die all time why do anything to prevent needless death ??? Why even have weight classes?

    How can someone think like that but then be so adent about a (imo non-existent) genocide happening in Israel? Wouldn’t you just kinda go bleh they die anyways who cares?

    I’m going to be selling cars advertising them as fully self driving. They don’t actually nearly drive themselves but who cares, people die from cars everyday.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      52·
      3 months ago

      How many women have men killed in the ring? Exactly how many? Because I’m betting it’s zero. Meaning you have nothing to base that claim on.

      So I’m still waiting to hear the implications.

      • Snowflake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        Sounds like you aren’t satisfied until they die and beg for mercy. It can easily happen too.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          42·
          3 months ago

          So then zero, meaning you have nothing to base this claim on.

          In which case, what are the implications?

          • girlfreddyOPEnglish
            72·
            3 months ago

            Snowflake is really living up to their name here.

          • Snowflake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            14·
            3 months ago

            what are the implications?

            My last 2 comments. 😉😉

            We’ve gone from doing medical blood tests in woman boxing to who cares they die anyways let them die and beg for it first. And you still ask what I’m talking about lmao.