The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has raised the possibility of excluding boxing from the 2024 Paris Games.
The IOC pointed out that the world's supreme boxing body, under the leadership of Russia, showed "no real interest in the sport or its athletes".
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has been stripped of its participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and boxing was not even included in the initial program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, all pending reforms demanded by the IOC.
Qualification for the Paris 2024 boxing tournament is organized by the IOC, but he said concerns about the IBA meant it would make further decisions that "may mean canceling boxing for the Paris Olympics".
"The recent IBA congress showed once again that it has no real interest in the sport of boxing and boxers, but that it is only interested in its own power. Decisions and discussions to keep boxers away from Olympic qualifications and the Olympic Games cannot be understood otherwise," he pointed out. IOC.
IBA is led by Russian Umar Kremlyev, with the support of Gazprom.
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