IBA warns IOC against dropping boxing from Olympics | The Express Tribune
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NEW DELHI: The International Boxing Association (IBA) has fulfilled all reform criteria and it would be "criminal" if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) drops boxing from Olympics, IBA President Umar Kremlev told Reuters on Friday. The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 over finance and governance issues and did not involve it in running boxing events at the subsequent Tokyo Olympics either. The strained relation between the sports bodies further soured after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. The amateur boxing's governing body defied IOC guidance and lifted a ban on the Russian and Belarusian boxers competing under their flags last October. Kremlev said IBA under him had put corruption and bankruptcy behind itself to emerge as an efficient organisation. "The IBA has fulfilled all the criteria 100% concerning all the questions that were raised in relation to judging and system reforms," the Russian told Reuters on t...