With the Olympics only a couple of months away, amateur boxing, one of the sports favoured to bring Britain a fistful of medals, is giving itself a black eye. Last week the former sports minister Richard Caborn, the new president of the Amateur Boxing Association, held a crisis meeting with officials to try to resolve infighting which has resulted in threats by some council members to prevent ...

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