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A Chaotic News Conference Offers Little Clarity on a Boxing Dispute

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The news conference had been billed as an effort by international boxing authorities to clear up the reasons they banned two athletes from a women’s competition last year, and a chance to shed crucial light on what has become the biggest controversy at the Paris Olympics.

Instead, the gathering started 90 minutes late, then veered into the chaotic almost immediately. And when it ended about two hours later, almost nothing about the controversy had been clarified at all.