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The computerized system was designed to eliminate subjectivity and the potential for abuse from judges who could be bribed or simply would favor one country's fighters over another's. It was put into place after perhaps the most egregious Olympic decision of all, when Roy Jones Jr. of the United States was robbed in the 1988 gold medal match against Park Si Hun of South Korea, the host nation.

Jones so badly out-boxed Park that it was obvious to even first-time observers who'd won. Yet, the gold went to Park, and Jones had to settle for what might have been the most unsatisfactory silver medal in Olympic history. So incomprehensible was the decision that AIBA awarded Jones the Val Barker Trophy as Most OutstandingBoxer of the Games despite the loss.

Rather than preventing abuse, though, the computerized scoring system simply makes it easier for a judge of a mind to do so to cheat.

In theory, if an Olympic boxing judge wanted to favor a particular fighter, all he or she would have to do would be to repeatedly press that fighter's button. That would greatly increase the odds of a push within a second of two others and would help pile up points.

There has to be great suspicion about the veracity of all officiating at these Games, given a BBC report from September that alleged Azerbaijan was promised two boxing gold medals in exchange for a $10 million loan to the AIBA.

AIBA investigated itself instead of having an outside body look into