Boxing chiefs slam IOC Tokyo threat
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Amateur boxing’s crisis-hit governing body yesterday said it had done everything asked to clean up its act and warned of legal action if stripped of organizing the event at the Tokyo Games.
The International Olympic Committee has frozen the sport’s preparations for next year’s showpiece competition as it seeks proof that the International Boxing Federation has done enough to address allegations of bout-fixing at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
A decision on whether it will run the boxing program in Tokyo is set to be made on May 22. If barred, the IOC has said it will step in to ensure the sport still appears in the Japanese capital.
AIBA said it will “defend its legitimate right” to organize boxing in Tokyo and “will review all of its options, including legal, given that the IOC has breached the Olympic Charter.” The AIBA executive committee will meet on May 18 in Lausanne to fine tune its position.
The governing body’s chief executive Tom Virgets insisted they had met all the requirements stipulated by the IOC.
“We believe as an organization that we have done everything that has been asked by the IOC,” he said. “Every single document asked, we produced, every single requirement we have met, including our president self-suspending, the same manner as IOC members self-suspend when they have problems.”
Controversial Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov stepped down as head of AIBA in March, which the IOC deemed as the first step towards meeting the required standards. He was replaced as interim president by Moroccan physician Mohamed Moustahsane.
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