The Asian Boxing Confederation said it aims to withdraw from the embattled International Boxing Association (IBA) after the global governing body was stripped of its Olympic recognition for failing to meet a set of reforms.
The Asian group's board of directors met in Bangkok on Thursday and Friday after the International Olympic Committee The board recommended an extraordinary congress to amend its constitution and allow it to join a federation recognised by the IOC, president Pichai Chunhavajira wrote in a letter on Friday to the body's 43 member nations.A date for the congress has not been decided.
"As a confederation we believe that the Olympics represent the pinnacle of athletic achievement," wrote Chunhavajira, who is a member of the IBA board of directors due to his position as ASBC president. "The Asian Boxing Confederation wants to assure our national federations, boxers and supporters that we remain steadfast in our commitment to promoting the sport of boxing and supporting our athletes within Asia and on the international stage."to withdraw the IBA's recognition by a 69-1 vote. The Olympic body had suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues.
The IBA, which called the decision "a tremendous error", had tried to have it blocked through an urgent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sport's highest court, whichSeveral countries, including the United States and Britain have left the IBA to form a breakaway group calledBoxing is part of the 2024 Paris Games, but the qualification bouts and the competition are being run by the IOC not the IBA, as was the case at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
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