IOC weighs boxing Olympic KO

Not much of a "movement". Money laundering, corruption, free entertainers, free labour

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What a mess!, violence as a sport will always be attractive to seedy types. Me too and yes I understand the irony. Watching someone else get the crap beaten out of them is cathartic, but there are rules and when the rules are twisted so doth the sport, sport being a loose term in this case. See this level of violence on the street I'm upset. But yet there are enough young men and women willing to cop a punch for a payment. The problem as usual is the governmence.

This is the classic case of the pot calling the kettle black! Presumably the updated AIBA report didn’t have a large enough brown envelope accompanying it, corruption is endemic in the IOC.

Perhapse the best wake up call would be if both Stockholm and Milan pulled their bids, maybe just maybe it will change the monolithic mega expensive event mental attitude that prevails in the upper elite of the Olympic organisation and open the door to new thinking that would allow places like Africa to host it without bankrupting a country.

In another 40 years, the IOC will have eliminated virtually all real sports from the games (anything involving real physical competition), and what remains will be judged spectacles. Olympic boxing had already devolved into a farcical spectacle, so it's not any great loss to see it removed from the games entirely. Why was boxing hit with a bout-fixing scandal in 2016? Because the Olympic rules have made boxing more about judging than about sport. Having referees and timekeepers to make sure the sport stays fair is fine. Having judges who decide winners means that it's more pageant than sport.

Citius, Altius, Fortius soon needs to be replaced with Fancier, Sexier, More Marketable. The way a lot of the television coverage is, they ought to be called the Pathos Games instead of Olympic Games.