Capturing an Olympic gold medal is special but overcoming tremendous odds and winning it at home, never mind meeting your future wife, made it extraordinarily special for 1984 Olympic heavyweight champion Henry Tillman.
It's being reported that Anton Kadushin, the head coach of Russia's national boxing team, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The Russian Boxing Federation (RBF) confirmed the information to news outlets.
The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics have new dates for 2021. The opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics will take place July 23, 2021, almost exactly a year after the event was supposed to start this summer. The closing ceremony is set for August 8, 2021.
It's been announced that world amateur champion Oleksandr Khyzhniak from Ukraine was elected AIBA Athlete’s commission chair, and a European amateur champion from Italy, Irma Testa, became the vice-chair.
The International Olympic Committee’s Boxing Task Force (BTF) have fired back at claims that their qualifying tournament in London had caused three boxers and a trainer to test positive for the coronavirus. On Wednesday the Turkish Boxing Federation claimed the IOC was irresponsible for the positive tests, because they allowed the event to go forward. The competition took place at the Copper Box arena in London, with boxers from 43 countries taking part in the qualifiers.
Toni Filipi, a heavyweight from Croatia, has become the second boxer who attended the European Olympic qualifying event in London to test positive for COVID-19. News that the 24-year-old, who lost to Ukrainian Serhii Horskov on the second day of the tournament, has the virus follows the announcement that Serhat Guler, the Turkish middleweight, and one of the Turkish coaches tested positive.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is under fire, over the recent news that two Turkish boxers and a trainer tested positive for the coronavirus.The IOC has been accused of irresponsibility by the Turkish Boxing Federation.
AIBA, the controversial governing body of amateur boxing, is hoping to complete all of their reform requirements in order to have their organization suspension lifted before the start of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The Turkish Boxing Federation announced on Tuesday that a boxer and a coach tested positive for coronavirus. The federation said on its website that after the cancellation of the Olympic qualification event in the UK, the boxing team returned to Turkey and two members of the team tested positive for COVID-19.
A four-week plan to determine the best course of action for the world’s most prominent competition didn’t even last 48 hours. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with realistic expectations placing the games well into 2021, organizers announced on Tuesday. The decision was made after IOC officials met with Shinzo Abe, prime minister of hosting nation Japan—all of whom agreed that the widespread coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has severely compromised athletes’ ability to sufficiently prepare for the summer event.