Bach: We will be working on boxing in Tokyo 2020

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, stressed the need to include boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

At a press conference in Tokyo on the sidelines of the committee's executive council, Bach refused to confirm that boxing would be included in the 2020 Olympics, but stressed "we will do everything to protect athletes, as we always do it.

"The International Boxing Federation of Japan has asked the ICRC to create Olympic boxing competitions, but Bach acknowledged that there were doubts about the International Boxing Federation (IBA), especially on the basis of his election the month of last, Uzbek Ghafoor Rahimov, to his presidency, and that his name is related to organized crime, according to the US Treasury Department, and the Uzbek businessman denied the charges.

The boxing federation expressed "satisfaction" that the Olympic Committee's executive board "recognized" the progress made, while its president rejected concerns that its ranking by the US Treasury Department would hinder his ability to lead the union. "I can badure the committee, that the situation with the American authorities is based on false accusations of the old regime of my country and that my team of lawyers is in the process of taking care of it," which works To fix this situation. "