Professional boxers will compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games after the international boxing association AIBA approved a constitutional change on Wednesday Panske Nike Air Force One Low Strata Sede Predaj , its president said.
AIBA boss Wu Ching-kuo said the change of the AIBA constitution was approved with 95 percent in favor - 84 of 88 voting members - paving the way for professionals to fight for medals for the first time at the Games starting on August 5.
Some 26 Olympic spots will be up for grabs when fighters compete at a qualifying tournament in Venezuela next month, with a total of 286 boxers - 236 men and 50 women - set to compete in Rio's boxing events.
AIBA spokesman Nicolas Jomard said there would be no wild cards, with the age limit at 40 for the athletes.
The move has drawn considerable criticism as many argue it would be unfair to amateur boxers who have trained for the Games for years and may now have to make way for the professionals.
Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who as an amateur won gold at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, has branded the move "ridiculous."
"It's ridiculous, it's foolish Panske Nike Air Force One Low Cervene Predaj , and some of the pro fighters are going to get beat by the amateurs. It's just going to happen, I really believe that," the 49-year-old told Reuters last week.
He said the three rounds in the Olympic Games would work in favor of the amateurs, with professionals used to fighting as many as 12 rounds.
Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton, a former amateur who has won WBA and IBF world title belts at super-bantamweight, was also against allowing professionals into the Olympic Games.
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Jomard rejected claims of a disparity.
"There has been a lot of talk about disparity of level," Jomard said. "But it is not true."
He said professionals would just need to adapt to a different set of rules that was Olympic boxing.
"Olympic boxing has existed for decades and it is for them [professionals] to adapt and not the other way around. Why should we adapt for a minority?"
Under Wu's leadership, AIBA set up the semi-professional World Series Boxing (WSB) in 2011 in which fighters earned money competing for city-based teams. He also introduced women's boxing at the Olympic Games in London in 2012.
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SYDNEY, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Australian mining giant Fortescue Metals have reported a sizeable drop in their shipments on Thursday, as poor weather shut down ports and stalled mining operations.
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The company has a cash on hand balance of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, and has so far managed to repay 2.7 billion U.S. dollars of debt in the 2017 financial year.
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"We remain on track to deliver our guidance of between 165 and 170 million tonnes for the full year."
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BANGKOK, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's former premier Yingluck Shinawatra has to show up in court if she wants to lodge an appeal to Wednesday's court verdict which sentenced her to five years in jail, said Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) President Meechai Ruchuphan on Thursday.
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Those defendant politicians, including Yingluck, cannot legally have any lawyer file such appeals on their behalf under the new law governing criminal cases against politicians, the CDC president said.
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The Supreme Court delivered the verdict in absentia of Yingluck who was found guilty of duty-negligence and misconduct charges involving a corruption-prone rice program implemented nationwide several years ago, and she was sentenced to five years in prison.
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