(UPDATE) TAIPEI — Sports fans at a Taipei bar burst into applause when Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting was declared winner in her opening Olympic bout — a victory that comes as controversy around her gender stirs heated debate.
Lin and Algerian Imane Khelif are at the center of a global row over their participation in the Paris Olympics after previously being disqualified from an international competition for unspecified "eligibility criteria," prompting some to claim they were men, or transgender, fighting in divisions for women.
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