No live footage of Lin Yu-ting vs Sitora Turdibekova??

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Am I missing something or is there no live coverage or footage to be seen anywhere of the Lin Yu-ting vs Sitora Turdibekova boxing fiasco today?

Lin Yu-ting won (unsurprisingly) and it's almost like some kind of clean-up operation going on. Not been able to see the fight anywhere.

Did anybody manage to see it or have a link?

Lets do it!

On Lin's Instagram (which has many previous posts, though absolutely nothing since the Olympics began) there’s one from just before the Games showing 14 'supplies for foreign war' neatly and methodically laid out on a bed ready for packing for going to the Olympics, which according to the captions (easily translated) include 'daily tampons'. This leapt out at me as being virtually the only thing in the entire account giving even a tiny whisper of a hint that Lin might be claiming to be female. Other than that, had you not been told, you’d look at all the photos and reels and not for a second assume this was anything other than a lean, very fit young male athlete. So my guess is that someone somewhere is carefully curating the account and the inclusion of those 'daily tampons' in that picture was a very deliberate thing.

Lin had already been ruled ineligible by the IBA by then after testing, and hadn’t appealed. So the cat was very much out of the bag by the time that picture was taken.

Elsewhere in the account is a training video of Lin hanging from a bar while being pummelled repeatedly in the stomach by a coach/training partner. We then cut to a shot of Lin's shirt being lifted to show a very honed, very male-looking torso.

I know nothing about boxing or whether that would be a normal part of a female boxer's training routine. But to me those two things we're being asked to believe don’t sit happily together.

I thought the BBC did not have broadcasting rights. That they could only show what the French coverage was feeding them. Which was why some GB events, or events where a GB participant was winning, sometimes bits were missed as the focus was on a French athlete.