PARIS — It wouldn’t be an Olympics without a cultural controversy, and we’ve already seen several from these Games. Last week, the Opening Ceremony inflamed passions, and this week, a boxer’s quick dispatching of her rival set off critics. Here, explained, is the developing story of the Olympic boxing gender scandal, involving Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting.
Are men boxing in women’s divisions at the Paris Olympics?
The International Olympic Committee has repeated on multiple occasions that Khelif and Lin, who are both boxing in the Paris 2024 Games, are biological women, according to their passports.