“At this rate, the Olympics will cease to be the most important tournament in the world.” Mekhontsev on the IOC decision on the IBA

2012 Olympic gold medalist in boxing Egor Mehontsev told that the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to strip the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition status could affect the status of the Olympics as a tournament.

The IOC at its Thursday session decided to withdraw recognition from the IBA.

– IBA must take this decision to an international court, so that they say how legal it is. I am personally very interested in the legality of this suspension. I don’t understand what they claim, that the Kremlin is Russian? I’ve never heard a clear statement from the IOC, why don’t they want to see the IBA on the international stage?

At one point, Klitschko “sang” that the Kremlin took his wife’s last name to get closer to Putin. He’s just a Ukrainian villain from a supposedly democratic country. Kremlev loves his wife, so he took her last name. What’s inside ?

Russophobia on the face, the Russians are to blame for everything. They want to create a league without us, it’s very sad, but neither the athletes nor the IBA have any influence on politics, they are only involved in boxing. A very biased, unsportsmanlike and undemocratic decision. They all say they fight for human values, but we only see double standards.

With such actions, the IOC will ensure that the Olympics cease to be the most important tournament in the world. Boxing is likely to follow in the footsteps of Olympic football. Does anyone even know the Olympic soccer champions from the last Olympics? Mehontsev told .

In 2019, the IOC temporarily withdrew recognition status from the IBA for economic reasons and due to a management crisis in the organization. The IOC has made demands to reform the organization, which was suspended to host the Olympic boxing tournament at the Tokyo Games.