Olympics-Canadian boxer wins battle to compete in Tokyo

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Boxing - Preliminary - Women's Fly (51kg) Round of 16 Bout 130 - Riocentro - Pavilion 6 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 12/08/2016. Mandy Bujold (CAN) of Canada reacts. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra

(Reuters) - Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold said on Wednesday that her dream to compete in the Tokyo Olympics was "intact" after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that qualification criteria must accommodate women who were pregnant or had given birth.

After qualifying events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to use results from three tournaments over an 11-month period between 2018 and 2019 to determine Tokyo boxing berths.