Boxing will still be part of the Olympic program, but will be arranged differently.

The decision also applies to the Olympic qualifiers and has been taken "with the athletes in mind".

How the Olympic tournaments will be organized has not been determined, but an alternative model will be developed in collaboration with the organizers in Paris and the athletes' representatives.

It must be presented "in due course".

Excluded candidates

The IOC has had pronounced problems with how Iba has been governed and points to previous refereeing scandals and the fact that the federation is financially dependent on the Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom as reasons.

In recent months, the union has been shaken by a new scandal, when just one day before this year's congress, five candidates were excluded - including the presidential candidate Boris van der Vorst and the Swedish boxing union's chairman Per-Axel Sjöholm, who ran for the board.

Bought votes

Four of the excluded candidates appealed to the Sports Arbitration Court, Cas, and were granted - the exclusion was annulled.

Even before the illegal exclusion, Per-Axel Sjöholm had, in an interview with TT, accused the controversial Russian chairman Umar Kremlev of having bought votes with money from Gazprom before the election.

When Kremlev took over in 2020, he promised improvements so that boxing would remain on the Olympic program after 2024, but the IOC has stated in a letter to all member nations that they are not satisfied with the work going on in Iba and that boxing is now outside the program. in Los Angeles 2028.

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