BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 10 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : INCOMPETENCE LASTS ONLY TWO DAYS

Figure this one out:

Because he acted like a sorehead after a defeat earlier in the tournament and drop-kicked his mouthpiece into the third row of the press seats, Irish boxer Paul Griffin was suspended from all International Amateur Boxing Assn. (AIBA) events for two years.

But a Ghanan judge, Keith Dadzie, was suspended for two days earlier in the tournament for incompetent judging. One of his scores for a bout was zero to zero.

When asked about the apparent inequity, AIBA vice president Arthur Tunstall of Australia replied: “At all times, we try to look out for the health and safety of the boxer.”

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant, all Times-Mirror newspapers.