a report<\/a> published last year found that corruption in boxing had been \u201cendemic\u201d in Rio 2016, and probably also in London 2012. But this was linked to a \u201ccash for medals\u201d culture at AIBA, the International Boxing Association (amateur), rather than a shadowy gambling syndicate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nIn Beijing 2008, Irish star-class sailor Peter O\u2019Leary was found to have bet on competitor Great Britain to win the competition. But he was cleared by the IOC ethics committee, which determined his bet had no bearing on the final result. That\u2019s because O\u2019Leary did not have a chance of fighting for a medal.<\/p>\n
The Irishman was simply unfamiliar with the regulations that prohibited athletes from betting on Olympic events, the IOC found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is ramping up anti-match-fixing efforts ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, which gets underway Friday. The committee\u2019s Olympic Movement Unit on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions (OM Unit PMC) has conducted in-depth assessments of the seven Winter Olympic sports and 15 disciplines to determine the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":200118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
IOC Announces Anti-Match-Fixing Measures for Beijing 2022<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n