PARIS (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics, beat Turkey’s Esra Yildiz in the women’s featherweight semi-finals on Wednesday.
Lin, twice world champion, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif have been in the spotlight at the Olympics over a gender row that has dominated headlines and been the subject of much discussion on social media platforms.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot and Aadi Nair in Paris, additional reporting by Ben Blanchard, editing by Ed Osmond)
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