Culture of ‘favours’ saw incorruptible officials driven outAiba president Wu Ching-kuo let ‘manipulation flourish’A damning investigation into
boxing at the Rio 2016 Olympics has found widespread evidence of “corruption, bribery and the manipulation of sporting results” – with judges giving each other signals at ringside to fix bouts.
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The report by Prof Richard McLaren, who exposed state sponsored doping in
Russia, said that the seeds of the corruption had been sown in the years beforehand, with bouts before and during
London 2012 also under suspicion.