Taiwanese Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting won gold on her return to the ring following the gender row that exploded at the 2024 Paris Games, her coach said on Thursday.

Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were at the centre of a storm in Paris, where they won Olympic titles in separate weight classes.

Lin won gold in the 60kg category on Wednesday at Taiwan’s National Games in her first event since the Olympics.

A photo posted on Lin’s Facebook Stories showed the boxer smiling and holding a gold medal.

“It was good. We just did the preparations we were supposed to do,” her coach Tseng Tzu-chiang said, confirming it was Lin’s first official event since Paris.

Lin had planned to compete at the world championships in Liverpool in September and agreed to undergo a compulsory genetic s

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