Olympics: IOC to hold inquiry to determine boxing's 2020 fate

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee on Friday gave the controversy-hit sport of boxing a Tokyo Games lifeline, announcing an inquiry into the sport's federation and keeping alive its hopes of inclusion in 2020.The International Boxing Association will have its finances, governance and ethical standards looked at, the IOC said, with the executive board to possibly give a recommendation on whether the sport should be contested in 2020 to the IOC session in June 2019 -- the final deadline for such a decision.The move is an "initiation of a procedure which can lead to the…READ FULL ARTICLE