The Czech Boxing Association opposed the entry of Russian athletes into the competition.
Another country has announced boycotts of the World Boxing Championships, which are held under the auspices of the International Boxing Federation. According to the President of the Czech Boxing Association, Marek Shimak, the Czech team will not go to the world championship.
The reason is the entry of Russian and Belarusian athletes into the tournament. In addition, the Czech Republic is not satisfied with the president of the international association IBA, the Russian Umar Kremlev, who is closely related to the head of the Kremlin, Putin.
“This is generally the opinion of the entire executive committee. Even our state expresses itself in this way. We decided because we condemn the war in Ukraine.
The entire boxing association including the former leadership expressed support for Ukraine.
This is a long-term position because the head of the international association IBA is the President of Russia, Umar Kremlev, who is closely related to Vladimir Putin.
There, money decides a lot, Gazprom pays for everything. Basically they want the World Cup to be considered more important than the Olympics,” Simak was quoted by Sport.cz as saying.
It will be remembered that earlier the teams of the United States and Ireland also announced that they will not compete in the 2023 World Boxing Championships, due to the entry of the IBA in the competitions of the Russians and Belarusians.
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Source: korrespondent
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