Lin will face Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman in Wednesday’s semi-finals. Even when she loses she is going to take residence a bronze medal.
Lin and Staneva met within the quarter-finals of final 12 months’s World Championships with Lin successful earlier than she was disqualified. Because of this, Staneva was promoted to bronze medallist.
The IBA mentioned Lin had “failed to satisfy the eligibility standards for taking part within the ladies’s competitors, as set and laid out” in its laws.
However the IOC has strongly defended each Lin and Khelif.
President Thomas Bach mentioned on Saturday: “We now have two boxers who’re born as a girl, who’ve been raised as a girl, who’ve a passport as a girl and who’ve competed for a few years as a girl.
“That is the clear definition of a girl.”
The Russia-led IBA has been suspended by the IOC since 2019 due to considerations over its funds, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.
Within the ring, a scrappy battle threatened to boil over at occasions with Staneva often complaining about Lin’s use of elbows.
She got here out swinging within the last spherical in an try to overturn a deficit however was caught by Lin’s blows.
“Svetlana is an expert boxer,” her coach mentioned. “She’s not concerned with who’s going within the ring towards. She desires to battle.”
“In final 12 months’s championship Lin had a bonus by the referee towards Svetlana and right here she has the benefit [over use of elbows] once more.”
The state of affairs, which has sparked extensive debate on-line, might take one other activate Monday after the IBA mentioned it could maintain a information convention “devoted to the detailed clarification of the explanations for the disqualification” of Khelif and Lin on the 2023 World Championships.
Khelif fights in her semi-final on Tuesday.
