Dzhakhon Kurbanov, the light heavyweight from Tajikistan who bit his opponent on the shoulder in a quarterfinal bout, won't face additional sanctions or suspension by the International Boxing Association.
Boxing chief Wu Ching-Kuo's fight to make his sport a respectable member of the Olympic family is not won yet, according to critics of the scoring at the Beijing competition.
Light-flyweight Zou Shiming and light-heavyweight Zhang Xiaoping won semifinal places on a wild night Tuesday to give China a tally of three Olympic boxing medals since they picked up their first in 2004.
World welterweight champion Demetrius Andrade sealed the U.S. team's worst-ever Olympic boxing performance when he lost 11-9 to South Korea's Kim Jungjoo in his quarterfinal bout on Sunday.
The dog days of the boxing calendar were supposed to be brightened by a B.J. Flores appearance. Only it didn't happen. And the circumstances surrounding the non-fight do well to illustrate the uncertainty of the game, Bart Barry says.