Controversial Olympic Boxers Being Bet Heavily: The Latest Updates

Two boxers who had been banned from the Girls’s World Championship final 12 months for being deemed biologically male are combating on the Paris Olympics.

The controversy has attracted the eye of the media, in addition to the betting group.

BetOnline.ag is reporting a seismic shift in its Gold Medal odds towards Lin Yu-Ting from Taiwan (featherweight, 57kg) and Imane Khelif from Algeria (welterweight, 66kg).

“We’ve seen continuous bets are available in on these two boxers since this story caught hearth,” Sportsbook Supervisor Adam Burns mentioned. “Clients who’ve by no means wager on boxing ever earlier than with us are unloading on these markets to again Khelif and Lin, and the one-sided wagering has pressured us to drastically transfer the numbers.”

BetOnline initially gave Khelif 7/2 odds (+350) to seize the gold in Paris, however over the previous 48 hours she has moved to the overwhelming, odds-on favourite.

Lin was at all times favored for the gold in her division, however her odds have been lower in half since opening at 2/1.

Listed here are the present Gold Medal odds:

Girls’s 57kg Gold Medal Champion              

Lin Yu-Ting (TPE)                       1/1

Svetlana Staneva (BUL)              7/2

Nasthy Petecio (PHI)                 6/1

Amina Zidani (FRA)                    8/1

Karina Ibragimova (KAZ)            8/1

Alyssa Mendoza (USA)               14/1

Xu Zichun (CHN)                        16/1

Jucielen Romeu (BRA)               25/1

Esra Yildiz (TUR)                        33/1

Julia Szeremeta (POL)                33/1

Michaela Walsh (IRE)                 33/1

Ashleyann Lozada (PUR)            40/1

Tina Rahimi (AUS)                     66/1

Sitora Turdibekova (UZB)           80/1

Khouloud Hlimi (TUN)               100/1

Valeria Arboleda (COL)              100/1

Girls’s 57kg Gold Medal Champion              

Imane Khelif (ALG)                    1/3

Busenaz Sumerneli (TUR)           2/1

Yang Liu (CHN)                          12/1

Morelle McCane (USA)              20/1

Janjaem Suwannapheng (THA)   28/1

Barbara Maria Dos Santos (BRA) 33/1

Chen Nien-Chin (TPE)                33/1

Navbakhor Khamidova (UZB)     33/1

Oshin Derieuw (BEL)                  33/1

Angela Carini (ITA)                    40/1

Aneta Rygielska (POL)                50/1

Alcinda Panguana (MOZ)           66/1

Brigitte Mbabi (COD)                 66/1

Luca Hamori (HUN)                   66/1

Marissa Williamson (AUS)          150/1

Ivanusa Moreira (CPV)               200/1

Present odds may be discovered on this web page HERE.

Feminine boxing icon Claressa Shields, who was a gold medalist on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, additionally reacted angrily to the information.

Shields posted on X: ‘In order that they received males combating in opposition to girls within the Olympics @Olympics boxing! I wouldn’t have stood for no stuff like that! That’s so heartbreaking to the ladies who need to have their goals ruined by a person. Unhappy asf!’

Khelif is scheduled to face Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday, whereas Lin is about to compete in opposition to both Marcelat Sakobi or Sitora Turdibekova on Friday.

Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Government Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and in addition a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.