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US and China hold first trade talks of Biden era © Getty Images US Trade Representative Katherine Tai The US and China's top trade negotiators have held "candid, pragmatic" talks, in their first meeting under the Biden presidency. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He held a virtual meeting on Thursday. Both sides said they discussed the importance of the trade relationship between the two countries. The talks follow the Trump administration's combative stance towards China and resulting trade war. The Office of the United States Trade Representative sai...

But Bujold said in an email "we are disappointed and quite frankly surprised that neither the IOC or the (Olympic Boxing Task Force) have yet responded" to her lawyer's letter sent April 23. "They have not reached out yet to indicate if they are planning to rectify the qualifying rules to accommodate female athletes who were pregnant or postpartum during the chosen qualifying period for Tokyo." After a competitive year wiped out by the global pandemic, the 11-time national flyweight champion had been confident she'd clinch a berth at the Olympic qualifying tournament in May in Buenos Aires, b...

Lori Ewing April 30, 2021 - 9:11 AM Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold plans to take her fight for a berth in the Tokyo Olympics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Bujold and her lawyer Sylvie Rodrigue petitioned the International Olympic Committee for a berth based on her pregnancy and maternity leave, and had hoped for a decision by Friday. But Bujold said in an email "we are disappointed and quite frankly surprised that neither the IOC or the (Olympic Boxing Task Force) have yet responded" to her lawyer's letter sent April 23. "They have not reached out yet to ind...

Lori Ewing Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold poses for a photograph at her boxing club in Toronto on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 16, 2021 - 12:04 PM TORONTO - Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold has hit another huge road block in Tokyo Olympic qualifying. This one might be insurmountable. After a competitive year wiped out by COVID-19, the 11-time national flyweight champion from Kitchener, Ont., had hoped to fight her way into an Olympic berth at the Americas Olympic qualifier scheduled for next month in Buenos Aires. But amid rising cases ...

The 49 quota spots slated to be awarded at the event will now be allocated via IOC Boxing Task Force ranking. Bujold, a two-time Pan American Games champion, has been hoping to be the first female to box for Canada at consecutive Olympics. An illness derailed Bujold's dreams at the 2016 Rio Games. Hours before her quarterfinal loss to China's Ren Cancan, she was in hospital on an I.V. Canada's 11-time flyweight champion and 18 of her teammates were forced into isolation after national team training in Montreal was cut short in February due to a positive COVID-19 test. After news of the cancel...