LAUSANNE: Boxing must stay its position at next 12 months's Olympic Games however reputation of AIBA, the governing body of the game's newbie model, must be suspended, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) government board really helpful on Wednesday.
The IOC mentioned in a observation that it will as an alternative set up a task drive to organise the boxing competitions, together with the qualification occasions to be held between January and May.
The recommendations followed an IOC inquiry into the finances and governance of AIBA which has been in turmoil for years.
AIBA says it has gone through a profound reform programme within the last 18 months and finished everything that has been asked of it but the IOC mentioned that "there has been a lack of satisfactory progress".
"Today’s decision was taken in the interest of the athletes and the sport of boxing. We want to ensure that the athletes can live their dream and participate in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020," IOC President Thomas Bach told reporters.
"At the similar time, we provide a pathway again to lifting the suspension, however there needs to be further elementary trade.”
The recommendations will probably be put to a full IOC session in Lausanne in June. The IOC added that AIBA's status must be reviewed after the Games.
While the IOC organises the Olympic Games as an entire, the federations run their very own sports competitions within that framework.
Suspension would rob AIBA of its major supply of funding and be a devastating blow to the body which has organised Olympic boxing for 73 years.
AIBA president Gafur Rahimov suspended himself from the publish in March as a result of his presence on a U.S. Treasury Department sanctions list "for offering subject matter improve" to a legal organisation. The Uzbek strongly denies the allegations.
He has been changed on an meantime basis via Mohamed Moustahsane.
The IOC confirmed the overall athlete quota for boxing on the Tokyo Games would remain at 286 and the choice of eight males’s occasions and 5 girls’s occasions would be maintained, as in the past licensed.
The IOC mentioned in a observation that it will as an alternative set up a task drive to organise the boxing competitions, together with the qualification occasions to be held between January and May.
The recommendations followed an IOC inquiry into the finances and governance of AIBA which has been in turmoil for years.
AIBA says it has gone through a profound reform programme within the last 18 months and finished everything that has been asked of it but the IOC mentioned that "there has been a lack of satisfactory progress".
"Today’s decision was taken in the interest of the athletes and the sport of boxing. We want to ensure that the athletes can live their dream and participate in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020," IOC President Thomas Bach told reporters.
"At the similar time, we provide a pathway again to lifting the suspension, however there needs to be further elementary trade.”
The recommendations will probably be put to a full IOC session in Lausanne in June. The IOC added that AIBA's status must be reviewed after the Games.
While the IOC organises the Olympic Games as an entire, the federations run their very own sports competitions within that framework.
Suspension would rob AIBA of its major supply of funding and be a devastating blow to the body which has organised Olympic boxing for 73 years.
AIBA president Gafur Rahimov suspended himself from the publish in March as a result of his presence on a U.S. Treasury Department sanctions list "for offering subject matter improve" to a legal organisation. The Uzbek strongly denies the allegations.
He has been changed on an meantime basis via Mohamed Moustahsane.
The IOC confirmed the overall athlete quota for boxing on the Tokyo Games would remain at 286 and the choice of eight males’s occasions and 5 girls’s occasions would be maintained, as in the past licensed.
IOC recommends boxing keeps its place in Tokyo Olympics but not under AIBA
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