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BRIBES REPORTED TO FIX BOXING AT 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS
AZG DAILY
28-09-2011
The BBC's "Newsnight" programme reports evidence that secret payments
are being made for countries to ensure gold medals at the London 2012
Olympic Games.
It was broadcast both on the BBC Web site as well as "Newsnight,"
suggesting that secret payments of millions of dollars were being made
from Azerbaijan to the international organisation World Series Boxing.
The BBC says it has been shown evidence from whistleblowers that
the WSB's chief claimed the money was in return for a guarantee that
Azerbaijani fighters would two gold medals in London.
Lawyers for the International Amateur Boxing Association told the
BBC that any such allegation was "preposterous and utterly untrue."
"Any suggestion the loan was made in return for promises of gold
medals at the 2012 Olympics is preposterous and utterly untrue,"
said an IABA statement.
IABA, the boxing organiser at the Olympics, admits an Azeri national
paid $9m (£5.9m) to one of their competitions, reports the BBC,
but they deny any suggestion that any deals were made to fix medals.
"It was an arm's length transaction between two entities made on
a commercial basis and with a view to a commercial return for the
investor," the statement added.
The latest allegation of Olympic cheating will no doubt worry the
London 2012 organisers as well as the authorities.
Last week, Professor David Cowan, a doping expert from King's College
London, warned sportsmen and women who refuse to play fair not to
come to London, the Press Association reported.
"It's going to be the riskiest games for cheats," he vowed, saying
"huge advances" had been made in recent years to find ways of reliably
identifying every kind of prohibited performance-enhancer. Cowan
spoke at the British Science Festival at the University of Bradford.
AZG DAILY
28-09-2011
The BBC's "Newsnight" programme reports evidence that secret payments
are being made for countries to ensure gold medals at the London 2012
Olympic Games.
It was broadcast both on the BBC Web site as well as "Newsnight,"
suggesting that secret payments of millions of dollars were being made
from Azerbaijan to the international organisation World Series Boxing.
The BBC says it has been shown evidence from whistleblowers that
the WSB's chief claimed the money was in return for a guarantee that
Azerbaijani fighters would two gold medals in London.
Lawyers for the International Amateur Boxing Association told the
BBC that any such allegation was "preposterous and utterly untrue."
"Any suggestion the loan was made in return for promises of gold
medals at the 2012 Olympics is preposterous and utterly untrue,"
said an IABA statement.
IABA, the boxing organiser at the Olympics, admits an Azeri national
paid $9m (£5.9m) to one of their competitions, reports the BBC,
but they deny any suggestion that any deals were made to fix medals.
"It was an arm's length transaction between two entities made on
a commercial basis and with a view to a commercial return for the
investor," the statement added.
The latest allegation of Olympic cheating will no doubt worry the
London 2012 organisers as well as the authorities.
Last week, Professor David Cowan, a doping expert from King's College
London, warned sportsmen and women who refuse to play fair not to
come to London, the Press Association reported.
"It's going to be the riskiest games for cheats," he vowed, saying
"huge advances" had been made in recent years to find ways of reliably
identifying every kind of prohibited performance-enhancer. Cowan
spoke at the British Science Festival at the University of Bradford.