He International Olympic Committee (IOC) He assured this Wednesday that the boxing A suitable new international body must be found early next year or the sport risks being dropped from the program of Los Angeles’2028 Olympic Games.
The IOC removed the International Boxing Association (IBA) the right to organize Olympic tournaments in Tokyo in 2021 and in Paris this year. This Tuesday, the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) confirmed the IOC’s decision to formally withdraw recognition from the International Boxing Association, which would mean its exclusion from the Olympic movement.
The IOC has long expressed concerns about the management of the IBA and the integrity of boxing refereeing and decisions. Last year he also reported Russian President of IBA, Umar Kremlev, of using “violent and threatening language” against IOC staff.
“Due to the universality and high level of social inclusion of boxing, the IOC wants it to continue appearing in the program of the Olympic Games,” the IOC declared this Wednesday. “Unfortunately this premise is far from being true for the LA 2028 Olympic Games because, for governance reasons, the IOC is not in a position to organize another Olympic boxing tournament. To keep boxing in Olympic program, the IOC needs an International Federation that is recognized and reliable as a partner, like all other Olympic sports,” added the Lausanne-based supreme body.
The IOC has called on national boxing bodies and Olympic committees to help create a new international governing body for the sport. To keep boxing in the Los Angeles Olympics, “the IOC needs to have an associated international federation by early 2025,” he announced. The IOC has not named any candidates, but most likely could World Boxinga breakaway body backed by boxing officials in the United States and Britain that split from the IBA last year and elected its own president, Boris van der Vorst, of the Netherlands.
World Boxing began organizing its own tournaments and, when it held its conference in November, it had members from 27 countries and territories.
The IBA said on Wednesday it was studying the possibility of appealing to the Swiss Supreme Court against the CAS decision, which it believed did not recognize the IBA’s own reforms.
Source: La Verdad
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