Olympic Boxers Don’t Want to Talk About the Gender Controversy

Maybe Olympic boxing hysteria can remain calm for a moment.

For a day, at least? 

Lin Yu-Ting, the Taiwanese boxer competing for the Chinese Taipei Olympic delegation defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in a unanimous decision in her opening bout at North Paris Arena on Friday. Unlike Khelif’s controversial quick victory over Italy’s Angela Carini yesterday, the Yu-Ting-Turdibekova fight was more tactical—the boxers bounced around the ring in the first round, sizing each other up—than brutal.