Aiba stripped of right to run boxing tournament at Tokyo Olympics

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Amateur boxing’s governing body, Aiba, has been stripped of its right to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic boxing tournament.

However the International Olympic Committee has confirmed that boxing will continue as an Olympic sport in Tokyo under a new task force chaired by the president of the International gymnastic federation Morinari Watanabe.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2QpoTFn
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