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TOKYO (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to freeze the introduction of boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, revealing that it had opened an investigation into the Federation. International Games.
After talks in the Japanese capital, the Olympic Committee said Friday that its executive council "has frozen the planning of the Olympic boxing tournament in Tokyo in 2020".
The Olympic Committee noted that its investigation into the International Boxing Federation "could result in the withdrawal of recognition from the IBA +", citing several extremely worrying points about the "governance" of the international body soccer.
However, the IOC has confirmed that it "will do everything in its power to protect the athletes and ensure that the boxing tournament can take place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games regardless of these measures."
She explained that she was still concerned about the "governance, ethics and financial management" issues of the Boxing Union, which was elected earlier this month and chaired by the controversial Uzbek businessman Ghafoor Rahimov.
Relations between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Boxing Federation at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were suspended when 36 officials and one referee were arrested on the pretext of match-fixing.
Relations between the two bodies have deteriorated to such an extent that the International Olympic Games decided in early October to freeze their relations with the International Boxing Federation and refused to grant Rahimov, the acting president, a card. credit for attending the Youth Olympic Games.
The committee said in a statement that it "had frozen all of its relations with the International Boxing Federation, with the exception of the necessary practical relationships for the implementation of the decisions taken …"
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), not to mention the name of the Uzbek businessman badociated with organized crime, according to the US Treasury Department's ranking, said it "is particularly concerned about the conditions of the constitution of the electoral list ", as far as he was the only candidate for the presidency of the International Federation after the rejection of the candidacy of Sirik Konakbayev, the former Kazakh boxer, dismissed Silver medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the colors of the Soviet Union.
Rahimov became president of the union by acclamation at the Congress which met in Moscow in early November.
© 2018 AFP
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