| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, November 13, 2001 |
Chinese Boxing Judges Punished for Unfairness at National Games |
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Judges and referees for boxing and all other sports and events at the on-going ninth Chinese national games were given a severe warning after five boxing judges had been punished for their unfair officiating during the competition.
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Judges and referees for boxing and all other sports and events at the on-going ninth Chinese national games were given a severe warning after five boxing judges had been punished for their unfair officiating during the competition.
The Chinese Army (PLA) team protested against the final scores right after a bout six days between a PLA boxer and one from Jiangxi Province. The PLA team claimed that their boxer had been awarded unfair marks.
An investigation panel found, after watching the video replay of the competition, that five judges had obviously given wrong marks.
The Chinese Boxing Association thus decided to revoke the qualification of the five national-grade judges, withdraw their certificates and degrade them to national first-grade judges; to disqualify them for officiating at the current national games, and have the five suspended for two years.
The judges are Guangxi, Shanxi, Beijing, Yunnan and Heilongjiang.
An spokesman of the association said that the sport's national governing body would continue its investigation into the issue and anyone found of cheats or violation of rules shall face severe punishment.
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