As the fall-out from the Olympic boxing controversy continues, when Irish fighter Michael Conlon was questionably judged to have been defeated by a Russian boxer in his quarter-final bout last week, one local boxing coach and judge said the Belfast man was ‘totally and blatantly robbed’.

Pa Flynn of St John’s Boxing Club in Fermoy also said he has personal experience of bribery attempts by Russian officials while …

 

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