IOC may hand TKO to boxing in Tokyo Games

Olympics 2018 and Tokyo 2020,” he told reporters.

Bach added that the IOC would be freezing all contacts with the sport’s governing AIBA “excluding the ones on a working level necessary to implement the respective IOC decisions.”

AIBA said the IOC decision was “extremely disappointing” after the boxing body had submitted a progress report as requested.

Following a two-day Executive Board meeting in Pyeongchang, Bach said the IOC had not been satisfied with the AIBA report and that it would be opening an investigation into the body.

AIBA has been riven with infighting for months, with former president and IOC member CK Wu first provisionally suspended and then stepping down last November after a bitter dispute with his executive committee.

AIBA named Uzbek Gafur Rahimov as its new Interim president last Saturday, following the unexpected resignation of interim president Franco Falcinelli.

AIBA said in a statement that the IOC had demanded a new report on its governance by April 30 and it would comply with that.

The statement said AIBA had hoped the IOC would have understood that “the processes necessary to implement even more measures require more time.”

The boxing body added that it had shown already a willingness to reform and would be carrying out a complete organisational review over the next six months leading to a “New Foundation Plan.” Reuters