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Post by Irn Bru Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:43 am

and it wasn't on the streets of Rio - it was in the boxing ring.

Olympic boxing corruption alive and well, says official, as rows continue

The senior official who went public with fears of deep-rooted corruption in Olympic boxing has claimed a string of controversial decisions show it is “alive and well” and called for urgent action by Aiba, the amateur sport’s governing body, amid furious scenes around the ring in Rio.

“As predicted, the corruption is alive and well and the decisions speak for themselves. It is clear that Aiba will not do anything about this. It is time now for the IOC to step in,” said the source, insisting that amateur boxing is so rotten that only the removal of Aiba’s president, CK Wu, all of his administration and all of the officials at the Olympics would cut it out.

“President Wu needs to resign, as well as the executive director and the senior staff. Every RJ [referee and judge] and ITO [international technical official] needs to be suspended. That’s the only way it’s going to change.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/16/michael-conlan-accuses-boxings-ruling-body-after-being-cheated-in-defeat

Shocking decision - Russians again?
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Post by Guest Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:15 am

I remember some of the 'media talking heads' during the 1980 Sochi Russian Olympic gymnastic competetions and how long and painfully slow it was taking for each judge to pass along their points for the events! 
Then the Russian gymnast would compete and *BAM* scores would be posted before the team member stepped off of the event area!  Evil or Very Mad
Things should have been STOPPED back then; but NOOOO, they just modified the way that points were awarded and spread it around to more judges ...trying to de-fang the BEAR when the Russian Bear was already screwing the event! 
Too bad, sure takes all of the dedicated peoples true spirit of the event and trashes it all.

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