After a monthslong battle, Mandy Bujold is one step closer to participating in this summer’s Olympic boxing tournament.
At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Bujold’s lawyer called to tell her that she had won an appeal that would make her eligible to compete in Tokyo beginning in July. Her hopes were in jeopardy because of the pandemic and changes in the qualifying rules that effectively disqualified Bujold because she had a child.
Bujold’s quest to win an Olympic gold medal for Canada remains intact after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Wednesday that the qualification criteria created by the International Olympic Committee’s Boxing Task Force must include an accommodation for women who were pregnant or postpartum during the qualification period.