Taiwanese boxer who failed gender test easily wins Paris Olympics match

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Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting won a Paris Olympics fight against Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday handily, 3-0

The judges scored each round for Lin in the dominating performance. Lin’s height and reach proved to be the biggest difference in the match as Turdibekova appeared to just be outmatched.

Lin was the No. 1 seed in the 57-kilogram division and had a bye going into the round of 16. Turdibekova defeated Marcelat Sakobi Matshu, of Congo, to move into the round against Lin.

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Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, right, fights against Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova in the women's 57kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte on Aug. 2, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Lin will square off against Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva next.

The boxer had been caught up in a gender controversy before the match.

Lin was disqualified from the 2023 Women’s Boxing World Championships, an International Boxing Association-sanctioned event, for failing to meet gender criteria and had a bronze medal stripped away.

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Lin Yu Ting, left in action against Sitora Turdibekova during the Women's 57kg - Preliminaries - Round of 16 bout at the North Paris Arena on the seventh day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in France on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. (Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)

At the time of Lin’s disqualification, IBA President Umar Kremlev said, "Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing