“No to the Games without boxing”: with this slogan attached to their shirts and banners, a small group of men and women demonstrated this Monday outside the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne (Switzerland), coinciding with the beginning of a meeting of its Executive Committee.
Some three dozen people participated in the protest, which was later attended by the American, Olympic runner-up in Seoul 88, Roy Jones Jr., in a car decorated with the same slogan.
The IOC suspended the International Boxing Association (IBA) in 2019 for its administrative and arbitration irregularities.
This sport is included in the program of the Paris 2024 Gamesbut for now It is not in Los Angeles 2028, since the organism does not meet the conditions of cleanliness and transparency required by the IOC for readmission.
The last controversial episode carried out by the federation was the re-election in May of the president of the IBA, the Russian Umar Kremlev, after the suspension on the eve of the election of the opposition candidate Boris van der Vorst, Dutch.
Van der Vorts appealed to the TAS, which agreed with him regarding the unjustified nature of his suspension, but the IBA assembly decided that there was no reason to repeat the elections. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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