Virginie Phulpin 07:25, May 18, 2022

Every day, the morning of Europe 1 returns to one of the sporting events which makes the news.

This Wednesday, Virginie Phulpin is interested in the withdrawal of boxing from the Olympic Games.

Will boxing disappear from the Olympics?

The IOC meets its Executive Committee today and tomorrow.

And it will be a question in particular of the future of boxing at the Olympics.

It might be time to put away the gloves and get a makeover. 

Looks like the International Boxing Federation is doing everything to get their sport out of the games.

By dint of provocations, the sanction will eventually fall.

Boxing is already on borrowed time.

It will be present in Paris in 2024, in 800 days exactly.

Programs are made well in advance.

But it has been temporarily withdrawn from the Los Angeles games in 2028. The provisional could well become final as the IOC has little taste for what is happening.

The election of the president of the international federation last week is worth its weight in gold.

The lucky winner is Umar Kremlev.

As its name suggests, it is Russian and close to the Kremlin.

It's true that it's a good idea at the moment, when the IOC has been very firm with Russian sport since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

And the way he was elected shows how big a joke democracy is in this federation.

Already, there was only one candidate, the candidacy of the other applicant having been deemed inadmissible.

But even with only one candidate, normally, an election worthy of the name takes place by secret ballot.

Not here.

Umar Kremlev was elected by acclamation.

Yes, you heard right.

Clap clap with the hands to designate a president who can block the road to the Olympic Games for his sport.

What is this circus?

Needless to say, the IOC doesn't take it well.

Umar Kremlev was elected by acclamation.

Yes, you heard right.

Clap clap with the hands to designate a president who can block the road to the Olympic Games for his sport.

What is this circus?

Needless to say, the IOC doesn't take it well.

Umar Kremlev was elected by acclamation.

Yes, you heard right.

Clap clap with the hands to designate a president who can block the road to the Olympic Games for his sport.

What is this circus?

Needless to say, the IOC doesn't take it well.

Should boxing really be removed from the Olympics?

The credibility of the IOC is at stake.

The boxing federation basically does the exact opposite of what the Olympic committee recommends.

Complicated not to take a sanction without denying yourself.

There is the personality of the president, but there is also the fact that the international boxing federation is financially dependent on Gazprom.

The Russian gas giant from which UEFA has separated as sponsor of the Champions League in particular.

It can stain.

And the least we can say is that boxing did not need that.

She already has a disastrous image at the Olympics, with suspicions of cheating and influencing referees at almost every Olympics.

We know something about it as French people with the cruel defeats of Alexis Vastine in Beijing and London.

We still don't understand how he could have been declared the loser.

In Tokyo also last summer there were suspicions.

This degraded image can rub off on all games.

I don't really believe that the IOC has any interest in taking this risk.

At some point, if the threats of sanctions agitated each time do not work and on the contrary the provocations multiply, it is necessary to decide on the spot.

Of course it hurts, but it might bring some ethics back into the ring.

you have to decide on the spot.

Of course it hurts, but it might bring some ethics back into the ring.

you have to decide on the spot.

Of course it hurts, but it might bring some ethics back into the ring.