Sean McGoldrick: Lurching from corruption to incompetence, Olympic boxing is on the ropes
The sport’s place at the summer Games is in jeopardy
Gráinne Walsh after her defeat to Aneta Rygielska of Poland. Photo: Ben McShane/Sportsfile
Ever since boxing became an Olympic sport at the St Louis Games 120 years ago, it has been a constant source of controversy.
The failure to give American Roy Jones Jr the decision in the light middleweight final at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 is probably the most notorious miscarriage of justice in Olympic history.
