LONDON (Reuters) – A Turkmen boxing referee and an Azerbaijani technical official were expelled from the London Olympics on Thursday after a night of controversy plunged the sport back into the mire.

The focus should be turning to women boxers competing at an Olympic Games for the first time on Sunday but instead the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has had to deal with the type of scandals that dogged it almost a decade ago.

LONDON (Reuters) – Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov from Turkmenistan has been expelled from the London Olympics, the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said on Thursday.

A second referee, Frank Scharmach of Germany, was suspended for five days by AIBA and a technical official from Azerbaijan sent home following two controversial decisions at the Olympic competition on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Anthony Ogogo caused the first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday, upsetting the favorite for middleweight gold in front of a vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip.

Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of margins.

LONDON (Reuters) – Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov from Turkmenistan has been expelled from the London Olympics, the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said on Thursday.

A second referee, Frank Scharmach of Germany, was suspended for five days by AIBA and a technical official from Azerbaijan sent home following two controversial decisions at the Olympic competition on Wednesday.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s Anthony Ogogo caused the
first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday,
upsetting the favourite for middleweight gold in front of a
vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince
Philip.

Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were
nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the
first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian
world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of
margins.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov
from Turkmenistan has been expelled from the London Olympics,
the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said on
Thursday.

A second referee, Frank Scharmach of Germany, was suspended
for five days by AIBA and a technical official from Azerbaijan
sent home following two controversial decisions at the Olympic
competition on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Anthony Ogogo caused the first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday, upsetting the favourite for middleweight gold in front of an vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip.

Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of margins.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Anthony Ogogo caused the first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday, upsetting the favorite for middleweight gold in front of an vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip.

Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of margins.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s Anthony Ogogo caused the
first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday,
upsetting the favourite for middleweight gold in front of an
vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince
Philip.

Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were
nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the
first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian
world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of
margins.

LONDON (Reuters) – Olympic judges and referees came under fire on Wednesday with one fighter accusing them of “a fix”, another successfully appealing a loss and even boxing great Lennox Lewis questioning some of their calls.

Iran’s Ali Mazaheri cried foul when the heavyweight was disqualified after being warned three times for persistent holding against Cuban Jose Larduet Gomez despite leading by two points going into the second round.