IOC Warns AIBA It Could Be Banned From Tokyo 2020

The IOC said that the Int'l Boxing Association (AIBA) "must resolve its governance issues by next month or risk missing out" on the 2020 Olympics and losing its IOC recognition, according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. The IOC "has warned AIBA before" to sort out its finances and the sport’s governance and anti-doping issues or risk missing out on Tokyo 2020. An AIBA progress report in May "did not satisfy the IOC," which said it would review the matter after the AIBA Congress and elections for president from Nov. 2-3 in Moscow. AIBA "has been in turmoil for several years" and its former president, Wu Ching-kuo, was suspended in '17 before stepping down over governance and finance issues. He was "briefly replaced" by Franco Falcinelli before Uzbek businessman Gafur Rahimov became interim president in January. Rahimov "is also the only candidate for the presidency in next month’s vote" but his presence on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s sanctions list "has triggered the ire of the IOC" (REUTERS, 10/3).