The International Boxing Association (IBA), suspended by the IOC since 2019 due to numerous irregularities, has asked the Olympic body that the next European Games will not qualify for the Paris 2024 Games when it comes to your sport.
Due to the suspension of this federation, the IOC took over the organization of the pre-Olympic tournaments (it had already been done before Tokyo 2020) and chose the continental games as the main means of qualification.
The European Games to be held in Krakow-Małopolska (Poland) from June 21 to July 2 this year will not include Russians and Belarusianswhich, in the opinion of the IBA, “seriously undermines the chances of these athletes to qualify for Paris 2024”.
Therefore, the OTHER “urging the IOC to withdraw the eligibility of these competitions“.
The boxing federation, headed by Russian Umar Kremlev, already welcomed Russian and Belarusian women to the women’s world championships last month, anticipating the IOC’s decision to recommend federations find ways to participate as neutrals .
In any case, according to the IOC, the entry to the Paris Games of the Russians and Belarusians has been studied.allowed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian political and sports authorities have announced that they will boycott all competitions in which athletes from the invading country or its main European allies participate.
“The 2023 European Games cannot remain an IOC-recognized qualifier for Paris 2024 and should be annulled to counter the discriminatory actions taken by the European Olympic Committee against the recommendations made at the last meeting of the IOC Executive Board,” the IBA said in a statement on Thursday.
“The athlete-first approach must prevail and there must be no place for politics in our sport, and IBA shows it in its actions,” he added.
The IBA has announced its own Olympic qualification system, different from the IOC, whose axis is the world championships.
Source: La Verdad
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