BERLIN, March 13 (dpa/EP) –
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will send a control team to the next Women’s Boxing World Cups to be held in India, the International Boxing Association (IBA) reported Monday.
The IBA indicated that the IOC team will be led by the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and that their presence “is part of the important compliance assessment process of the ongoing oversight of the IBA and its governance reform, practices and activities.” in progress”.
“The IBA trusts that the PwC team will see first-hand the best practices of the IBA in relation to technical and competition rules, specifically its announced match review process,” the statement said.
The IBA has been suspended by the IOC since 2019 over issues including governance, financial transparency and refereeing integrity. The IOC, and not the IBA, directed Olympic boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and is doing the same for those in Paris; boxing is not on the provisional program for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
The IOC is also concerned about the sponsorship of the federation by the Russian company Gazprom and the fact that the IBA, led by Russian Umar Kremlev, allows athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete with their national symbols, despite of the IOC recommendation that they can only compete as neutrals.
Several countries, including the United States, Britain, Ukraine and Germany, will not send athletes to the World Cups to be held March 15-26 in New Delhi, and possibly not to the men’s World Cups in Tashkent in May.
There has been speculation about the possibility of founding a new federation to secure boxing’s Olympic future, possibly following an IOC meeting at the end of March.