The International Olympic Committee has threatened the long-criticized association IBA with the exclusion of boxing from the Olympic program already for the Paris Games, which will take place in a year and a half.
He blames the organization, which is led by the Russian Umar Kremlyev and is financially dependent on the energy company Gazprom, for not trying to solve its problems and for allowing Russians and Belarusians to start at its events in October.
The Boxing Association has been at loggerheads with the IOC for many years, which suspended it due to its governance, financial, match-referencing and ethics issues back in 2019.
He withdrew the IBA from organizing the Olympic tournament in Tokyo and already announced in June that the association will not be in charge of the qualifying tournaments for Paris 2024 and the fights under the five rings themselves.
“The IBA has no real interest in boxing, it is only interested in its own power. It lacks the will to understand the real issues,” IOC officials said in a statement.
Traditional sports are not yet on the program for the next 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
