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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/sep/24/sport-news-in-brief?newsfeed=true Amateur boxing's global governing body has received unanimous agreement from individual federations to give full co-operation to the inquiry into the charges that Azerbaijan were promised two gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics in return for millions of dollars. The Amateur International Boxing Association discussed claims made on the BBC'S Newsnight at an extraordinary meeting in Baku on Saturday. The five-strong committee, appointed by Aiba, will be headed by Tom Virgets, the chairman of the body's disciplinary commission, and also include two other members of the disciplinary commission, a member of Aiba's ethics commission, and the body's legal counsel. The inquiry is open ended and will take as long as is required to report back. Newsnight screened claims that World Series Boxing, an attempt by Aiba to take on the professional boxing circuit, accepted a $9m (£5.85m) payment from the Azerbaijan government and guaranteed the medals in return. Aiba admitted payments were made to finance four WSB franchises in America, but said it was not from the government but an individual investor and strongly denied it was linked to any promise of medals. Jamie Jackson

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/boxing/2011/09/24/olympic-champ-james-degale-not-suprised-by-amateur-boxing-corruption-claims-115875-23441966/Olympic champ James DeGale not suprised by amateur boxing corruption claims JAMES DEGALE has not been surprised by ­allegations two London Olympics gold medals were promised by amateur boxing bosses for £6.5million.For years the Londoner, who won a middleweight gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, has suspected amateur boxing of being corrupt.And he is not shocked by claims an official from the International Amateur Boxing Association did a deal with an Azerbaijani.The International Olympic Committee is investigating claims that an unnamed private Azeri paid the sum in exchange for two boxing golds for Azerbaijani fighters in London next year.The AIBA, which ­oversees Olympic boxing judges, rejected the claims but has launched its own ­investigation which DeGale, 24, hopes will clear up the scandal. There have been ­countless controversial decisions at the ­Olympics.The most famous was when American Roy Jones Jnr – who would later win world titles at four weights as a professional – lost the points decision despite dominating South Korean Park Si-Hun at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.DeGale, who ­challenges for the ­European super-middleweight title on October 15, claims he even suspected corrupt judging at the last Olympics where he won gold.He said: “These reports prove to me how corrupt amateur boxing is with the politics of the decisions.“When I was amateur I had decisions going against me and team-mates and if these stories are true it proves something’s been wrong for a long time.“It used to happen a lot in eastern Europe.“I remember winning fights easily and getting back to the corner and being told I had lost the round or it was scored even.“But to buy Olympic gold medals is unbelievable.”Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/sport-front-page/2011/09/24/olympic-champ-james-degale-not-suprised-by-amateur-boxing-corruption-claims-115875-23441966/#ixzz1Yv7vghjS Go Camping for 95p! Vouchers collectable in the Daily and Sunday Mirror until 11th August . Click here for more information

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/london-olympics/BBC-promises-evidence-to-IOC-over-Azerbaijan-boxing-claims/articleshow/10105596.cms BBC promises evidence to IOC over Azerbaijan boxing claims LONDON: The BBC promised that it would help any International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigation over its allegations that amateur boxing's global governing body had promised to deliver two gold medals to Azerbaijan at the 2012 London Olympics in return for millions of dollars. The Guardian reported that IOC's independent ethics committee will consider the evidence before deciding whether to launch a full investigation. The BBC aired claims by two whistleblowers that World Series Boxing, an attempt by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) to take on the professional circuit, accepted a $9million payment from the Azerbaijan government and guaranteed the medals in return. AIBA has confirmed the payment, to finance four WSB franchises in the US, but maintained that in not from the government but an individual investor. AIBA also denied that the payment was linked to any promise of medals. AIBA has now promised to appoint a five-man panel to look into the allegations. AIBA in a statement said that the world body and its subsidiary "deny in the strongest possible terms that they accepted an investment from Azerbaijan in exchange for two gold medals", adding that it was "not aware of any credible evidence" to support the allegations. The IOC ethics commission is already investigating the IOC members Issa Hayatou, Lamine Diack and Joao Havelange, also a former FIFA president, over corruption claims, which was revealed from a BBC Panorama documentary.

Boxing's larcenists must not be allowed to judge at London Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/sep/24/boxing-larcenists-not-to-judge?newsfeed=true These days you can pre-pay for all sorts of advantages, including the right to suffer sooner on an easyJet flight. They call it speedy boarding. So if you can purchase Olympic tickets a year in advance, why not buy the medals too? Pay now and avoid the rush. Olympic sport is permanently braced against the ram-raid, the swindle, the pharmaceutical con. A common claim is that the higher the subsequent financial rewards the greater the depth of cheating. But fraud was endemic in games and pastimes long before sport became a global corporation. A new front has opened, though, with Newsnight's allegation that a senior official of the Amateur International Boxing Association promised Azerbaijan two golds at London 2012 in return for a $10m loan to assist the ailing World Series Boxing. While the AIBA dismiss the accusations as "preposterous and untrue", it's a wonder no one thought of this before. Train for four years in some reeking sweat box and then place yourself at the mercy of potentially suggestible judges or simply deposit a large holdall with the governing body and wait for the national anthem to strike up? Next week we will discover whether the International Olympic Committee ethics commission considers the BBC's claims worthy of investigation. The IOC, no choir of angels themselves, are in the unenviable position of having to supervise many shambolic, secretive and self-serving governing bodies that function as personal vehicles for megalomaniacs. Most governments take a laissez-faire approach to sports administration (just think Switzerland and Fifa). Their view is that governing bodies are a kind of Unibond League for wannabe politicians too stupid to make it into parliament. The sadness is that boxing will now take the manure-hit while other Olympic sports conceal, fail to conquer and even encourage other forms of cheating. As you read this, track and field athletes, cyclists, swimmers and shot-putters will be honing their performance-enhancing drug programmes and hoping to beat the testers. A theoretical article of faith is that the spectator must trust what he or she will see at London 2012. A more realistic view is that the punter no longer assumes the spectacle is honest but merely hopes it is. The scandal-weary modern viewer sees an entertainment form, not a morality play. While Ben Johnson remains the Olympic poster boy for yellow-eyed duplicity, few memories surpass the look on the face of Park Si-hun, a South Korean boxer who had just been punched 86 times by Roy Jones in the final of the 156-pound class in Seoul in 1988 – while delivering 32 blows of his own. Sad-eyed, Park waited for the inevitable confirmation of Jones's victory only to feel his own arm raised by the referee. Mortification stole across his features. He was too embarrassed to celebrate. It was said that Park apologised to Jones. One of the three judges who were later suspended was found to have been wined and dined by Korean officials. The IOC fobbed Jones off with the best boxer at the Games award but have never corrected the injustice and he is still without his gold. So the light falls again on boxing, a sport where larceny by judges is especially offensive because of the sacrifices made by the combatants. Richie Woodhall, the former British fighter and now trainer with Team GB, said on Saturday: "Now that I'm a coach, it's soul-destroying when we send boxers to tournaments and sometimes we can't see how they have been beaten. You just scratch your head over it. It's so disheartening. "We have seen it happen many, many times in amateur boxing. Our guy is clearly the winner and doesn't get it. Boxing for your country, I just think anyone found to be guilty in any of this should be banned for life and sent to a Gulag." Vast would be the Gulag that housed all sport's cheats. Boxing, an ancient Olympic discipline, is now at risk of expulsion as the IOC consider trimming the schedule from 26 to 25 sports after London. But Jacques Rogge, the respected IOC president, is a former rugby player who understands the merits of physical combat. Instinct says he will argue against punishing the boxers themselves for sins committed by hangers-on, political opportunists and governing bodies allegedly on the make. It would be a travesty to ostracise boxing on the back of a failure to control officials while allowing Greco‑Roman wrestling and taekwondo to stay on the programme. It may be, though, that amateur boxing is incapable of maintaining a fair judging system at the Olympics, in which case the IOC should set up their own governing body for the duration of the Games, with people it can trust. But just as spot-fixing in cricket showed that sport to be vulnerable to pre-emptive scripting, so the Olympics may need their own menu of prices for medals. If you can't buy the athletes, buy the people who decide the outcomes. If the IOC want to act, they can start by sending Roy Jones a gold medal, not 12 months early but 23 years too late.

http://www.thescore.ie/did-bbc-land-another-blow-on-amateur-boxings-credibility-235458-Sep2011/ Did the BBC land another blow on amateur boxing’s credibility? JUST DAYS BEFORE the beginning of it’s centrepiece event, amateur boxing has been hit with a scandal which is so serious that it may even threaten it’s future as an Olympic sport. A BBC Newsnight investigation claims to have uncovered evidence that authorities in Azerbaijan were willing to bribe officials in return for two gold medals at next year’s London games. The $9m payment, it is claimed, would be used to keep afloat the ailing World Series of Boxing, a competition which is due to return for a second year in November. Extremely difficult as it would be to fix an Olympic boxing match in practice, any perception of corruption would damage the sport’s reputation, perhaps beyond repair. In the modern Olympics, where corruption and cheating are abhorred, the penalties for boxing could be severe, if these allegations are true. The sport was forced to amend it’s scoring system after the Roy Jones controversy in Seoul 1988, so allegations of fixed fights are nothing new. However, when fighters themselves claim something is crooked, one can’t help but wonder how many scandals will become one too many. The timing of these allegations means the 2011World Championships, which begin in earnest this Monday, have been totally overshadowed. With at least eight places on offer in the Olympic Qualifiers in each weight class, a strong performance is needed from the Irish who will have only one other chance to qualify for London next year. After much discussion about the make-up of the team, there is much consensus that the right 10 boxers have travelled to Azerbaijan and hopes are high of another strong performance. To return without a medal would even be a disappointment, but the real goal for most is a spot in the quarter-finals, and in turn a seat on the plane for London 2012. That said, when suspicions of corruption and fight-fixing linger in the air, tensions will no doubt be high. And with the stakes so high, it’s clear that the Irish will need the rub of the green to go with their undoubted talent.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/olympics/3832752/Boxing-scandal-riles-Olympic-boss-Jacques-Rogge.html Boxing scandal riles Olympic boss Jacques Rogge By VIKKI ORVICE 23 Sep 2011 OLYMPIC chiefs have demanded instant answers into claims of "cash for medals" boxing corruption at London 2012. It follows allegations that Azerbaijan made secret payments of millions of dollars in exchange for being guaranteed two boxing Olympic gold medals at London 2012. The allegations — revealed on BBC Newsnight on Thursday — claim that an individual from Azerbaijan paid £6million to the World Series Boxing (WSB) — the professional tournament owned by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). And although the AIBA have admitted that an Azeri national did pay one of their competitions the money through a Swiss company, they have denied any deal to fix medals or any Government involvement. But on Friday the International Olympic Committee — as well as British boxing chiefs — called for a full investigation into the claims which threaten to tarnish next summer's Games. Great Britain has a number of gold medal prospects at London 2012, including Commonwealth champions Simon Vallily and Tom Stalker. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC, which has demanded an immediate report from the AIBA, said: "We take all allegations of corruption very seriously. We would urge the BBC to make any evidence they have available." The allegations are also set to cast a huge shadow over the organisation at the worst possible time with the AIBA 2011 World Championships — a qualifying event for the 2012 Olympics — set to get underway this weekend in the Azerbaijan capital Baku. Vallily, who won heavyweight gold in Delhi, and lightweight Stalker are already out there with the rest of the 12-man British team — who are all eligible for London 2012 if they reach at least the quarter-finals. AIBA had already scheduled an Extraordinary Congress ahead of Saturday's competition which now looks set to be dominated by the scandal. A spokesperson for the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) which manages the elite programme for the Olympics, said: "Our boxers and coaches are focused solely on competing at the World Championships and will not allow this issue to distract their preparations. The squad has performed very well in competitions in 2011 and aims to continue its excellent run." The accusations revolved around Ivan Khodabakhsh — the WSB chief operating officer — with Newsnight claiming he resorted to desperate measures after the organisation ran into financial difficulties in the United States. The insiders said Khodabakhsh told them a secret deal had been done to secure funding from Azerbaijan in return for the guarantee that two Azerbaijani fighters would win Olympic gold at London 2012. An unnamed insider said: "Ivan boasted to a few of us that there was no need to worry about World Series Boxing having the coin to pay its bills. "As long as the Azeris got their medals, WSB would have the cash." Khodabakhsh has already reacted to the claims calling them "an absolute lie". He insisted: "I deny that I have offered anyone two gold medals or have any understanding that anybody else has offered two gold medals to Azerbaijan." Sporting events promoter Barry Hearn was asked to look at the economics of WSB when it was first mooted in 2009 and came to the conclusion that it could not make money. This year members of the GB Boxing squad have already won 33 medals in nine top tournaments including two gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the European Championships in Turkey.

Baku pledges stepped up security for Armenian boxers Armenian and Russian teams will be accommodated separately from other teams at an upcoming World Boxing Championships in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. An agreement to this effect has been reached with the Azerbaijani Boxing Federation, according to executive director of Russia’s Boxing Federation Yevgeniy Sudakov. The official explained that the Russian team also had two ethnic Armenian boxers – David Hayrapetyan (49kg) and Misha Aloyan (52kg). Similar security arrangements are also expected to be put in place for athletes representing Armenia proper after relevant promises given by Azerbaijani sport officials. The Armenian delegation consists of five officials and eight boxers, including Hovhannes Danielyan (w/c 49kg), Hovhannes Bochkov (w/c 56kg), Vladimir Sarukhanyan (w/c 60kg), Hrachik Javakhyan (w/c 64kg), Samvel Matevosyan (w/c 69kg), Andranik Hakobyan (w/c 75kg), Artur Khachatryan (w/c 81kg) and Armen Simonyan (w/c +91kg). Some 685 boxers representing 127 countries will take part in the championships in Baku (to be held from September 26 to October 10). Boxers taking 1-8 places will make it to next summer’s Olympic Games in London.

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