SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 14 : REFEREE SANCTIONED AFTER DE LA HOYA BOUT

The referee who failed to disqualify Oscar De La Hoya’s South Korean opponent in the boxing semifinals Thursday was either partially suspended, reprimanded or both, depending on who was talking Friday.

Paul Konnor of Milwaukee, a USA Boxing official who is also legal counsel for the International Amateur Boxing Assn. (AIBA), said he was told that Streten Yabucanin of the Independent Olympic Committees (Yugoslavia) had been suspended.

“He’d better have been suspended, because if I see him go in the ring to work another bout involving one of our kids, I’ll crawl in there and drag him out,” Konnor said.

Yabucanin allowed the South Korean, Hong Sunk Sik, to continue boxing, despite citing him for five infractions for holding. AIBA rules call for disqualification after four violations.

AIBA Vice President Arthur Tunstall of Australia said Yabucanin had been “reprimanded, but not suspended.”

During Friday’s semifinal bouts, Yabucanin judged two of 12 bouts but didn’t referee any.

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