LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic boxing's governing body, AIBA, has banned African confederation head Kelani Bayor for three years for allegedly provoking the crowd at the continental championships in Brazzaville last June. Bayor is an AIBA vice-president and executive committee member as well as chairman of Togo's national Olympic committee. It found Bayor had "committed serious and unacceptable violations of the AIBA Disciplinary Code" at the tournament in Congo Republic. The Congolese Boxing Federation, Fecoboxe, was barred from organising any AIBA competition for two years. The Lausanne-based world boxing body is currently riven with in-fighting, with the executive committee passing a vote of no confidence in Taiwanese president Ching-kuo Wu last July.

Source: The Star September 11, 2017 21:22 UTC