Olympics: Two boxing judges in controversial decision still in Rio

Those duties will be handled for the tournament’s final four days by Franco Falcinelli, a vice president of the executive board and the president of the European Boxing Confederation.

“The Olympic Games represent the pinnacle of all sports and boxing has been part of this since 1904”.

“AIBA will not shy away from its responsibilities and is fully committed to a zero tolerance policy towards fair play in boxing, always acting in the boxers’ utmost interest”.

The International Boxing Association (Aiba) has dropped a number of officials after a review of their decisions at the Olympics.

A spokesman for the global federation that governs amateur boxing said Wednesday that the names of the referees and judges dismissed and the matches that were tainted would not be released because he did not want to “besmirch their families”.

Belfast boxer Conlan said after Tuesday’s contentious decision that his Olympic dream had “been robbed”.

Brazil’s Robson Conceicao, right, fights France’s Sofiane Oumiha during a men’s lightweight 60-kg final boxing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Nikitin still received the decision in a hard-fought bout, prompting an outraged Conlan to denounce AIBA and Russian Federation as conspirators in corruption.

“During the fight she was constantly on me saying “keep your head up Conlan and one more I am going to warn you”.

Despite the Kazakh having appeared to dominate the bout, the three judges found in favour of Tischenko, and the decision was met with boos and jeers from the predominantly Brazilian crowd. The Russian started his tournament by beating Vanuatu’s Boe Warawara in a bout that left Nikitin bleeding grotesquely from a cut on his shaved scalp, and the cut opened up in each of his two ensuing fights.

In the immediate aftermath of Monday’s decision, he blasted the AIBA, amateur boxing’s ruling body.

This has included allowing professionals to compete, removing the headguard, scrapping the appeals process and changing the scoring system. “Obviously Russia can’t dope this time so they are obviously paying the judges a lot more”.

“He’s a great fighter and you’ve got the up-and-coming rising superstar from the U.S., but I plan on coming out victorious”, said Stevenson. “Anybody can make a mistake, but it’s happened too often”.

“I can understand that frustration is heightened when there is a significant amount of media who also believe that he should have won”, he added. AIBA responded by reviewing the questionable matches and then booting quite a few of the boxing judges and referees, no doubt hoping their action will suppress some of the anger now swirling around Rio Olympic boxing.

But AIBA have rejected these claims and also thrown cold water on claims that the entire system is effectively corrupt.

But there remains voices within AIBA who say the issue revolves around the integrity of the organization, not the performance of a few judges, and those voices didn’t back down on Wednesday.