Taiwan boxer in Olympics gender row into final after 'tough journey'

A day after Algeria's Imane Khelif reached the 66kg women's gold-medal match, Lin claimed a unanimous points decision victory over Esra Yildiz Kahraman at 57kg in her semi-final. After the decision came through, the Turk made an X sign with her fingers to the crowd, just like another of Lin's beaten opponents had in a previous bout. Kahraman declined to say afterwards what it meant. In most cases, males have both an X and Y chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes. Lin and Khelif both...