Tokyo (AFP)
French boxer Mourad Aliev, eliminated Sunday from the Tokyo Olympics on disqualification in the +91 kg category, challenged this decision with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the court announced on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
"Mourad Aliev requests the cancellation" of this disqualification, and "the authorization to resume the fight from the beginning of the second round, with a different referee and judges", explains the CAS, which will decide "as soon as possible".
The only Frenchman still in contention in this Olympic boxing tournament, Mourad Aliev had been disqualified for a head butt to his opponent, the British Frazer Clarke, which the boxer had experienced as an injustice.
Incredulous and angry, Aliev, who seemed to dominate the fight after a given first round winning 3 judges to 2, then went around in circles in the ring, going to see his opponent to say "I won".
During the fight, Clarke had to be treated twice by the left browbone, and it was after the second treatment that the referee, grouping the boxers, announced his decision to disqualify the French.
After the official officialization of the result by the announcer, the Frenchman then made the + no + sign with his fingers in front of the cameras, and remained seated on the edge of the ring several minutes after the decision, refusing to move.
"They recognize that they made a mistake but as it is written they cannot go back on the decision. It is a scandal", had denounced Aliev on France Televisions.
But Monday, the director of the cell in charge of organizing the tournament within the IOC had confirmed his elimination, sanctioning no longer the headbutt but his "unsportsmanlike behavior" once the disqualification was pronounced.
The Frenchman "acted disrespectfully towards the referee", "used profanity through clear gestures", hit a camera and "created a very tense atmosphere", had enumerated the Australian Wayne Rose.
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