Boxing federation planning to launch domestic league next season

NEW DELHI: Eager to make up for the lost time, the recently-formed Boxing Federation of India (BFI) is planning to launch a domestic league next year, the details of which will be worked out after settling a “few issues”.

“We need to have a league, we are just trying to settle down a few things. But in 2017, we are definitely going to launch a league,” BFI President Ajay Singh in an interaction on the sidelines of the ongoing National Women’s Boxing Championships here but did not dwell on the issues left to be sorted.

It is to be noted, that professional boxing scene in India got a boost after amateur boxing hit a downward spiral owing to an administrative mess which lasted four years starting 2012 and ended in September this year with the formation of BFI.“We are well behind at this stage because of the lost time, so it will take time to build things,” Singh said. MCLAREN REPORT SOON GLASGOW: The second part of Richard McLaren’s report that revealed widespread state-backed doping in Russia is to be released on December 9, the World AntiDoping Agency said Sunday.

WADA director-general Olivier Niggli, confirmed the date, which comes after the December 6-8 International Olympic Committee executive committee meeting in Lausanne. WADA commissioned the two-part report from Canadian law professor McLaren, the first to determine the facts with respect to allegations of Russian state manipulation of the doping control process made by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of the WADA-accredited laboratory in Moscow.