Anwar Chowdhry, president of the International Amateur...

Anwar Chowdhry, president of the International Amateur Boxing Federation, said at a meeting of national Olympic committees in Vienna that a top-level panel has recommended suspending 9 boxers and officials involved in disputed bouts at the Seoul Olympics and stripping South Korea of all international amateur boxing next year.

At the same time, he said the panel has established a commission to examine the qualifications of all boxing judges and referees in Seoul, a review that could bar some of them from ever officiating again.

The boxing tournament in Seoul was clouded in controversy from the early rounds, when South Korean officials flooded into the ring and attacked the New Zealand referee after a Bulgarian scored a 4-1 victory over a South Korean boxer. The boxer then refused to leave the ring for more than an hour after the bout.