Overview
- Coach Tseng Tzuchiang said the Olympic champion will comply with World Boxing’s testing rule to compete in Liverpool.
- Under the policy, athletes over 18 must take a PCR test that detects the SRY gene as an indicator of a Y chromosome.
- The championships in Liverpool run from September 4 to 14, when World Boxing’s testing requirement will be applied.
- Lin and Algeria’s Imane Khelif were excluded by the IBA at the 2023 worlds over alleged testosterone test failures, then competed in Paris based on passport sex and won gold amid a wave of attacks and disinformation.
- World Boxing has provisional IOC recognition and is slated to organize the boxing competitions at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.