Miscellaneous
Today, Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold will learn whether or not she's headed to the Olympics. She earned the right to go, having made the Canadian team that was to participate in the Olympic qualifying tournament last year. But when it was cancelled due to Covid, the International Olympic Committee decided to qualify boxers based on their results from three tournaments in 2017 and 2018, the only three tournaments Bujold has missed since starting her boxing career in 2004. She was away from the sport for 11 months due to pregnancy and postpartum, and in 2018, she and her husband welcomed their daughter Kate Olympia (KO, as in knockout) into the world. Bujold asked the IOC to use her pre-pregnancy rankings - she was #8 in the world in 2017 - to qualify her for the Olympics, but the IOC denied her request. Her appeal went to the Court for Arbitration of Sport, the highest court in international sports, which is to announce its final decision this afternoon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jake-williams5/message