MADRID, 7 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended this Wednesday to the next session of the organization that it withdraw the recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA), although this sport remains on the program of the Paris Games of the year coming.
The body indicated that this recommendation is in accordance with Rule 3.7 of the Olympic Charter and that it is based on the full IOC report on the situation of the association as of June 2, 2023, which establishes that “it has not fulfilled the established conditions”. by the IOC in its decision communicated on December 9, 2021, “which was not challenged by the IBA, to lift the suspension of its recognition”.
In any case, the Executive Committee of the body chaired by Thomas Bach also recommends to the IOC Session, “in the interest of boxers and their sport”, to keep it “in the sports program of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games”
The IOC unanimously decided in June 2019 to withdraw from the IBA everything related to the organization of its sport, both in its qualification process and in its Olympic competition, due to its governance and financial problems when it was discovered that the Uzbek Gafur Rahimov had to step down as president of the federation in March because of his presence on a US Treasury Department sanctions list for offering “material support” to a criminal organization.