BANGKOK (Reuters) - Boxing will start with a clean slate for the Tokyo Olympics following an acrimonious contest at the 2016 Games, with the sport's troubled governing body and all 36 of the Rio officials barred from any involvement in the competition.
With a history dating back to the ancient Olympics and bouts at every Games in the past century, boxing's passion, popularity and place at the Olympics is rarely in question, but persistent disputes over judging quality have blighted successive contests.
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