Olympic boxer with BIZARRE style in the ring insists she's 'not afraid of anyone' after setting up a gold medal match against gender row fighter Lin Yu-Ting

Polish boxer Julia Szeremeta has taken her bizarre attack each nan measurement to nan Olympic Games golden badge lucifer wherever she will meet gender rower fighter Lin Yu-Ting. 

The 20-year-old defeated Filipina Nesthy Petecio by divided determination connected Wednesday nighttime to book her spot successful nan final. And she insisted that her attraction is solely connected nan gold. 

Szeremeta has gained attraction for her different style successful nan ringing which has seen her little her hands, provoke opponents and astir notably jump disconnected her feet during bouts to unsettle nan competition. 

'There's nary constituent talking astir nan metallic medal. I'm going for nan gold,' she said correct aft nan fight.'

She added: 'I'm not acrophobic of anyone; I don't consciousness respect. I spell retired and do my thing. I can't hold for nan final. Another triumph gives maine confidence, and I don't consciousness immoderate stress. I attack this for illustration a regular tournament. I don't deliberation it's nan Games. I container successful a relaxed way.'

The Pole will person a reliable task to extremity nan tally of Taiwan's Lu-Ting, who hit Turkey's Esra Yildiz Kahraman, 27, for a spot successful nan women's 57kg class final.

She is 1 of 2 female boxers - on pinch Algeria's Imane Khelif - who person been astatine nan centre of a gender statement astatine nan Paris Games. The brace were both banned from past year's World Championships by nan Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA), which claimed they had grounded gender eligibility tests. 

The IBA's main executive said past week that antheral XY chromosomes were recovered successful 'both cases' - but nan relation has grounded to supply impervious and nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) has questioned nan accuracy of nan tests.

The IBA has been suspended by nan IOC since 2019 because of concerns complete its finances, governance, and judging, and was stripped of its position arsenic a regulator past year.

It has many times claimed that nan IOC is putting female athletes astatine consequence by allowing Lin and Khelif to participate successful nan games, arsenic it prevented them from doing previously.

Both Lin and Khelif were registered women astatine birth, and nan IOC has powerfully defended their information successful nan games.

Lin defied nan large wind that has followed her into nan ringing and bowed and saluted nan 13,000 crowd astatine Roland Garros which has been converted from a tennis stadium to a boxing arena and will shape nan must-see bout.

The boxer underwent further tests by Taiwan's sports administrators earlier nan Olympics which confirmed her eligibility aft past year's disqualification.

Lin's Olympic officials called nan accusations discriminatory and declared them a deliberate effort to undermine nan boxer's intelligence state.

Regardless of nan result connected Saturday, Szeremeta will triumph Poland’s first boxing badge since Wojciech Bartnik, 32 years ago.