Ireland's Olympic medal hopes could receive huge blow with boxing facing expulsion from Tokyo 2020

Katie Taylor celebrates after winning gold at the 2012 Olympic Games. Photo: David Maher / SPORTSFILE

Sean McGoldrick

Ireland's most successful Olympic sport, boxing, is facing expulsion from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

The world governing body of the sport AIBA, has defied repeated warnings from the International Olympic Committee and elected Gafur Rakhimov as the permanent President of the organisation at a Congress in Moscow.