Sex Testing and the Ring: Lin Yu-ting and the Fight Over Women's Boxing Eligibility

A timeline tracing how a single boxer's career became the focal point of a decades-long governance war over who counts as a woman in sport: Lin Yu-ting's rise from Taiwanese amateur prospect to 2023 IBA World Championships disqualification, her 2024 Paris Olympic gold amid an unprecedented media storm, the escalating rupture between the IBA and the IOC over testing regimes, and her 2026 Asian Games defence in Aichi-Nagoya — set against the longer history of sex verification in women's athletics, from 1960s chromosome checks to modern testosterone limits and the unresolved rules hanging over Los Angeles 2028. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.