Mandy Marie Brigitte Bujold
France's Maiva Hamadouche, right, exchanges punches with Finland's Mira Majut Johanna Potkonen during their women's lightweight 60-kg boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Canadian boxer Bujold wins appeal to compete at Tokyo Games

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TORONTO (AP) — Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold looks forward to the day when she can tell her daughter that she got in the Olympic ring with sport's highest court ...

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2016, file photo, Canada's Mandy Bujold, left, knocks down Uzbekistan's Yodgoroy Mirzaeva during a women's flyweight 51-kg preliminary boxing match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Tokyo Olympics fate for Canada’s best boxer lies in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport after her qualifying tournament was scrapped due to the pandemic. Bujold and her lawyer, Sylvie Rodrigue, lost their appeal to the International Olympic Committee earlier this week, leaving CAS as her last chance to box in what would be her final Olympics. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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