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The International Boxing Federation (IBA) has hit out at the world’s highest sports court CAS and Olympic leaders after its appeal against a ban from the Olympic family was turned down. In a statement on Wednesday, the IBA said it would decide on another appeal at the Swiss Federal Tribunal after its legal team has studied the full verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It accused the CAS of bias and said it was “far from independent” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and that it had used “oversimplified language” in its statement from the previous day to uphold the ban. …

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