Wanyonyi leads the way into open 800m final
PARIS : Emmanuel Wanyonyi looked in great shape on Friday as won his semi-final from gun to tape to move into the Olympic 800 metres final where he will hope to make it five in a row for Kenya.
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Algerian Boxer, Imane Khelif, In Gender Row, Goes For Olympic Gold
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at the centre of an Olympic gender eligibility row, goes for gold in Paris on Friday as Thierry Henry bids to lead France's footballers to glory. With just three days of sport to go at the Games, there is a packed athletics programme at the Stade de France. The boxing competition has been overshadowed by a bitter row over whether Khelif and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting should be allowed to compete in the women's category.
Dual national Kaylia Nemour's gymnastics gold for Algeria has France feeling left out
Dual national gymnast Kaylia Nemour won Algeria's first Olympic gold in gymnastics — leaving France, for whom she competed for until 2021, to wonder what might have been.
Lin Yu-ting books spot in gold medal match before beaten opponent makes ‘X’ sign
Lin Yu-ting, one of the fighters thrust into a gender eligibility row at the Olympics, reached the women’s featherweight final before her beaten opponent made an ‘X’ sign with her fingers.
Coe accuses IOC of having ‘no clear position’ on boxing gender row
World Athletics President, Sebastian Coe, has hit out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not having a policy to deal with the current controversy over gender eligibility in Olympic boxing, reports insidethegames.biz. “It’s simple: have a policy,” he said.
Lin needs to shut out 'nonsense' gender row, says ex-federation chief
PARIS : The raging debate over boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics is "nonsense" and any talk about it should be ignored by the Taiwanese fighter, the ex-president of the country's boxing federation told Reuters.
Diplomatic punches thrown at UN over Olympic women's boxing
UNITED NATIONS : Russia and Algeria threw diplomatic punches at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday after Russia brought up an Olympic boxing gender row during a meeting of the body focused on women, peace and security.
Taiwan's Lin wins semi-final amid gender row
PARIS : 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.