Amateur boxing chiefs drop officials after 'handful' of bad decisions

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

Aiba said that, after 239 bouts in Rio, "less than a handful of the decisions were not at the level expected".


The body has admitted it is in a "transition process", but said results of bouts already contested will stand.
The reaction to Irish fighter Michael Conlan's controversial defeat prompted a reaction from Aiba.
Conlan lost by unanimous decision to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin when many observers felt he had won comfortably.
"We have a lot of educating to do and a lot of evaluating to do," Aiba official Tom Virgets told the BBC.
"Along the way we have to sharpen the blade with our officials, with more training, more evaluation."
The federation has since confirmed: "The concerned referees and judges will no longer officiate at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games."