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Foreigners find it hard to believe that a boxing-crazy country like the Philippines has never won an Olympic gold medal in the sport.

Photo from AFP Despite the current issues surrounding her beloved sport, Tokyo Olympics gold winner Hidilyn Diaz strongly believes that weightlifting will not be removed in the next edition in Paris. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently bestowed itself more power to cut sports in the

Mandy Bujold, the boxing mother in a legal fight to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics The Canadian, who missed the rearranged qualification window due to maternity leave, is taking her case to Court of Arbitration for Sport 9 May 2021 • 8:30am Mandy Bujold is the only female boxer to win back-to-back titles at the Pan American Games Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK For those seeking concrete proof that female athletes still face battles in trying to reconcile a sporting career with motherhood, look no further than boxer Mandy Bujold. Canada’s 11-time national flyweight champion had meticulously planned ...

TORONTO (AP) — Mandy Bujold would have preferred fighting this battle in the ring. Instead, the Tokyo Olympics fate for Canada’s best boxer lies in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport after her qualifying tournament was scrapped due to the pandemic...

Bujold and her lawyer Sylvie Rodrigue were denied their appeal to the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, leaving the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne her last chance to box in what would be her final Games. "I had been hopeful (about the IOC's decision)," Bujold said Wednesday morning. "But they did not even address the issues in our letter, which is really unfortunate, right? "You think of the Olympics and the principles of Olympism, you think about fairness, you think about sportsmanship, you think about all these things that make the Olympics what they are, and make me ...