On Monday, Vladimir Putin presided over Russia's lavish annual Victory
Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square. Yet some 48 hours earlier, 6,000
miles away in Las Vegas, another prominent Russian, the boxer Dmitry
Bivol, had literally championed his nation’s dubious cause with his
own victory parade.
THE national boxing team seeks to fine-tune its game as it goes into the final stage of its rigorous preparations for the 31st Southeast Asian Games and the International Boxing Association Women's World Championships next month. The country is coming off a victorious campaign in the recent Thailand Open in…
Ajay Singh, the President of the Boxing Federation of India, has
announced that a foreign coach will be appointed to the nation's
women's team prior to the Asian Games.
KITCHENER Coming off maternity leave and a returning to international competition, Kitchener, Ont., boxer Mandy Bujold, is in the biggest fight of her career. She hopes to represent Canada at the summer Olympics in Tokyo, but because of the pandemic, the International Boxing Task Force (BTF) decided to use the 2018 rankings to determine eligibility – a year Bujold was off on maternity leave. “When they re creating criteria, especially at the highest level, thinking about pregnancy and post-partum for women should be a given,” said Bujold. Tuesday night, she learned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) denied her appeal of the qualifying rules.