Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting (-57 kg), one of two fighters at the heart of a controversy over gender in the Olympic boxing tournament, qualified for the quarter-finals on Friday, beating Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova.
The day before, the lightning victory of Algerian Imane Khelif following the withdrawal of her Italian opponent Angela Carini had sparked an international controversy, leading in particular to reactions from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Republican candidate for the American presidential election, Donald Trump.
I hope you’re up for your usual Léon Marchand sting. Personally, I can’t live without him anymore, I can’t imagine my life starting next week without him. So, a little TV platter for 8:30 pm, just so I don’t miss Flo Manaudou before him. By then, our fencers will obviously have missed another trinket at the Grand Palais.
>> Meet here from 6:30 p.m.
To relive the start of the day: