PhotoRIO DE JANEIRO — Several referees and judges have been removed from the Olympic boxing competition after officials reviewed their decisions, fueling suspicion of dubious results in some matches at the Rio Games. PhotoThe judges’ decision in the Conlan-Nikitin fight was not the first one at the Rio Games to draw scrutiny. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe boxing federation did not say specifically how many decisions it deemed insufficient, nor did it specify what was wrong with those decisions. Your information is used only to deliver messages about the Rio 2016 Olympics. The federation chooses from a pool of 36 judges and referees (all judges also work as referees, and vice versa) at the Rio Games.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2016 17:46 UTC