Today's morning President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a teleconference to announce their final position on the organization of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The conference was also attended by, among others, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games Yoshiro Mori, the Minister of the organization of the Olympic Games Seiko Hashimoto, governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, IOC CEO Christophe De Kepper and the Executive Director of the Olympic Games on behalf of the IOC Christophe Dubi.
In late April it must be decided on the fact whether the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed. The quest for the most valuable sports medals was scheduled to begin on July 24 in Japan and end on August 9.
WBA and WBO officially supported professional boxers seeking to perform at the Olympic Games, while WBC and its president Mauricio Sulaiman threatens professionals who will go out in the ring in Tokyo in 2020 with two-year exception of its ratings.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will organize the Olympic boxing tournament at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. Committee members unanimously voted to stop the rights of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), thereby depriving the AIBA right to organize the most important event in Olympic boxing.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne on the executive committee continues to develop the program of the boxing tournament at the Olympic Games in 2020 in Tokyo.
Top Rank is close to signing a contract with two-time Olympic champion Robeisy Ramírez. It is expected that the 25-year-old Cuban will debut as a pro this summer.
WBO/WBC cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk appealed to Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for boxing to stay in the program of the Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo. Earlier, the IOC stated that this sport can be excluded from the Olympics because of multiple violations in the work of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA).
"Dear Thomas Bach, my name is Alexander Usyk. I won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London in the boxing tournament. Boxing is not just a sport for me, it also made me a man, husband, and father. It taught me how to live and be genuine, which I am very grateful for. "The Olympic Games fulfill me with emotions, because it means a lot of hard work, especially for every boxer - you train a lot, living a dream to achieve greater heights and it makes you move further. "I ask you to reconsider the position and leave the boxing in the program of the Olympic Games 2020. I appeal to support everyone who cares - fans, athletes and just not indifferent people!", wrote Usyk in one of the social networks.
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach at a press conference said that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has a number of problems that need to be resolved in the nearest future. Earlier, the Executive Committee of the IOC decided to extend the suspension of AIBA financing, and also demanded from the association to submit a report on the state of affairs in the organization by April 30.
"The decision of the executive committee is absolutely clear and understandable," Bach said. "We want a number of improvements to be made, we want to see explanations on financing, anti-doping and so on. And this is not one problem, it's a whole bunch of problems. When we come to the Youth Olympic Games, the IOC wants to be sure that there is a serious anti-doping program, the judging system should also be at the proper level. "
At the end of last year, the head of AIBA Ching-Kuo Wu resigned after being accused of the deterioration of the financial situation in the organization. His place was taken by the vice-president of the organization Franco Falcinelli, who soon also left this post. Gafur Rakhimov was eventually appointed as an interim president of AIBA. Elections of the president of AIBA will be held in Moscow in November.
The International Association of Amateur Boxing (AIBA) named Ukrainian Oleksandr Khyzhniak, world champion of 2017 at middleweights, the best adult boxer of 2017. The best woman boxer of the past year was the silver medalist of the Olympics-2016 Dutch Nahka Fontaine (75 kg). Russians Anastasia Shamonova and Nikita Piskunov received awards to the best young boxers of 2017.
Gafur Rakhimov became Interim President of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). Rakhimov, vice-president of AIBA, a 66-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, was appointed new Interim president on Saturday, January 27, at an extraordinary congress in Dubai (UAE). He will be replaced by Franco Falcinelli, who worked in this position since November last year. The permanent president of AIBA will be elected at the congress of the association in November 2018 in Moscow.
