CAS look favourably on Ward’s appeal, but is it too late?

It was generally accepted that boxing took a step backwards in Trabzon when teenage sensation, Joe Ward, was dumped out of the Olympic qualifying tournament on the back of what was a dreadful decision that robbed the 2012 Olympic Games of one of the best boxers in the world.

CAS look favourably on Ward’s appeal, but is it too late?

“As far as I’ve seen over the years — and I have attended many of those championships, Olympics, qualifiers and all sorts of tournaments — and I’m not just saying it because it’s Joe Ward, but it was a very bad decision,” IABA President, Tommy Murphy, insisted at the time.

“If it had been anybody else I’d say the same. It was a terrible decision.”

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