“He didn’t have to do that.” Katie Taylor has spoken about how a phone call from Roy Keane helped her in the ‘lowest moment’ of her career after she lost at the Rio Olympics. Taylor was the defending lightweight champion at the Olympics in 2016 and was expected to win her second gold medal following […]
4 years ago
Several 2016 Olympic events, including the infamous boxing bout involving Michael Conlan, have had the outcomes manipulated by a system set in place beforehand. Professor Richard McLaren, the head of the investigation commissioned by the sport’s world governing body AIBA, said the “seeds had been sown” years before. “Suspicious” bouts included defeats for Great Britain’s […]
4 years ago
Portlaoise boxer Michael O’Reilly has been banned for four years from the sport after it was confirmed that he had tested positive for methandienone prior to the 2016 Olympics. O’Reilly won a gold medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku and entered the Rio Olympics as one of Ireland’s brightest medal prospects before he […]
8 years ago
“There’s not a doubt about it that I was absolutely humiliated and treated in a disgraceful manner on my arrest.”
9 years ago
What is going on?
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AIBA told to lawyer up
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