Second gender row boxer Lin Yu-Ting is GUARANTEED an Olympic medal after winning featherweight quarter-final amid eligibility furore

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Second gender row boxer Lin Yu-Ting is GUARANTEED an Olympic medal after winning featherweight quarter-final amid eligibility furore

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The second boxer at the centre of the Olympics gender row has guaranteed herself a medal. Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting defeated her opponent, Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva, via a unanimous decision this morning to book a place in the semi-finals in Paris and a minimum joint third place. Yu-Ting and Algeria's Imane Khelif were banned from International Boxing Association World Championships last year for reportedly failing a gender test. However, both have been cleared to fight in the female category by the IOC in the French capital after the Russian-led IBA was stripped of the right to run boxing at the Games.
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