Boxing's Olympic future throw into fresh doubts by 'disturbing' IBA vote

The IBA is barred from organising the Paris Olympics in 2024, where boxing will be administered by an IOC-appointed task force, following the example set at the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021.

Umar Kremlev, the president of the International Boxing Association

THE future of Olympic boxing was plunged into further doubt in Yerevan Sunday as delegates of the sport's world governing body, the International Boxing Association (IBA), voted emphatically against permitting a leadership challenge to incumbent president Umar Kremlev.

After a 45-minute delay caused by a power cut in the Armenian capital, the Russian was backed to continue by 106 votes to 36 at a specially convened Extraordinary Congress, in a verdict widely assumed to shatter hopes of the sport securing a place on the programme for Los Angeles 2028.