International Boxing Association is stripped of its recognition: IOC | Boxing News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: In a significant decision, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially approved an executive board recommendation to strip the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) status as the governing body for the sport.
During the IOC’s extraordinary session on Thursday, the proposal received overwhelming support with 69 votes in favor and only one dissenting vote.
The withdrawal of recognition was attributed to the IBA’s inability to implement essential reforms in areas such as governance, finance, and ethical standards, as highlighted by the IOC.
The IBA had called the IOC board’s recommendation “truly abhorrent and purely political” and tried to have it blocked through an urgent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sports highest court, which rejected the appeal on Tuesday.
The IOC had previously suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues and did not involve it in running the boxing events at the Tokyo Olympics.
Boxing is part of the Paris 2024 Olympics but the qualification bouts and the competition are being run by the IOC and not the IBA, as was the case in Tokyo.
Other issues such as a sponsorship deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom that was terminated in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine further complicated the position of the IBA, which is led by Russian businessman Umar Kremlev.
The IBA’s actions have led to the creation of a breakaway group called World Boxing and several countries have left the IBA to join the new organisation.
(With Reuters Inputs)
During the IOC’s extraordinary session on Thursday, the proposal received overwhelming support with 69 votes in favor and only one dissenting vote.
The withdrawal of recognition was attributed to the IBA’s inability to implement essential reforms in areas such as governance, finance, and ethical standards, as highlighted by the IOC.
The IBA had called the IOC board’s recommendation “truly abhorrent and purely political” and tried to have it blocked through an urgent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sports highest court, which rejected the appeal on Tuesday.
The IOC had previously suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues and did not involve it in running the boxing events at the Tokyo Olympics.
Boxing is part of the Paris 2024 Olympics but the qualification bouts and the competition are being run by the IOC and not the IBA, as was the case in Tokyo.
Other issues such as a sponsorship deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom that was terminated in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine further complicated the position of the IBA, which is led by Russian businessman Umar Kremlev.
The IBA’s actions have led to the creation of a breakaway group called World Boxing and several countries have left the IBA to join the new organisation.
(With Reuters Inputs)
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