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Boxing gold medallists Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, caught in a gender row at the Paris Games, have been named flag bearers for the closing ceremony by their national Olympic committees. Khelif will carry the Algerian flag together with 800 metre runner Djamel Sedjati on Sunday evening. Lin will lead the Taiwanese team, known as Chinese Taipei at Olympics, into the Stade de France alongside 200 metre sprinter Yang Chun-han. There was a heated debate in Paris about Khelif and Lin’s right to compete after they were both disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships…

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