Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting shrugged off renewed attacks over her gender to reach the quarterfinals of the women's featherweight division. Elsewhere, Chou Tien-chen was eliminated from the badminton's men's singles and Taiwan lost out to eventual gold medal winners South Korea in mixed team archery.
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00:00Taiwan's Lin Yuting has shrugged off unwanted attention to win her opening fight in the
00:05women's boxing featherweight division.
00:08The Asian Games gold medalist scored a decisive 5-0 victory over Uzbekistan's Satora Tadabakova
00:15to reach the quarterfinals.
00:17Lin, along with fellow boxer Iman Khalif of Algeria, has been subjected to attacks over
00:22her gender eligibility despite being cleared to compete.
00:27Meanwhile, in badminton, Zhou Tiancheng is out of the men's singles event.
00:32He lost his quarterfinal against India's Lakshya Sen by two games to one.
00:38And Taiwan's mixed archery team of Lei Qianying and Tai Yuxuan lost a tough match to the South
00:44Korean team of Lim Si-hyeong and Kim Woo-jin, who went on to win gold against Germany.
00:51Lei still has a chance for a medal in the women's individual event.