All eyes were on the ring at Roland-Garros Stadium in Paris on Saturday night as the opening bell rang for the final bout of the women's 57-kilogram (featherweight) division, featuring Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) of Taiwan and Julia Szeremeta of Poland.
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