“Thomas Bach and his team should be integrated into the IOC, sport is suffering” – Kremlev, president of the IBA

International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev says International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach and his team are killing world sport.

— In the fall of 2024, the Women’s World Boxing Championship will take place in Kazakhstan. Therefore, the question is: when and where will the men’s championship take place?

— The calendar is being developed and today, as part of the youth festival, a meeting of the IBA board of directors will take place. These are precisely the calendar issues that will be addressed there. I think everything will be released in the next 10 days. But this year there will be a Team World Cup. But I know that all the countries and all the boxers are waiting for the next world championship to take place. I repeat, the calendar is forming.

— The Friendship Games will take place in September in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Are we expecting large-scale competitions?

— The “Friendship Games” await the whole world. The UAE-based organization is designed for athletes. Everything will be planned for the athletes, and there will also be a prize pool. Let’s take the direction of the IOC… They are petty crooks. Thomas Bach is a small-time crook. At the Olympic Games, we look at the athletes, not their faces. And they (IOC representatives) live in five-star hotels and fly on charter flights. And this money should belong to the athletes. Sponsors, television, fans come to see the athletes. This money should belong to the athletes. And they (IOC representatives) hang a medal, and it is not gold, but an ordinary piece of iron. And then go home.

How much they steal from athletes. Today, the Olympic family is suffering a lot, the athletes are victims of discrimination. They dictate that someone will perform without flags and someone will not perform at all. They have no rights. International sports organizations exist to create conditions for athletes. And those who introduce bans are destroying the Olympic system. The Olympics and World Championships are created to make people smile and have peace. And these… Thomas Bach and his team try to politicize themselves and dance on their sponsors, to do what they are told. They follow fashion in politics.

I think the sports world will clarify everything. Look how we boxed out the hyenas. We showed them their place, that they were excluded from society. I think the sports world will show today’s leaders calling for conflict and bickering. This will show that they are excluded from society. For me, the IOC President and his team are social outcasts. These are the people who rob athletes and take their money. An athlete dedicates his life to going to the Olympics to represent his country. That’s the first thing. Second, athletes must earn money, that money must belong to them.

International associations should help small countries that do not have money to develop the sport in the region. The money should belong to them, not today’s sports officials, so they can keep their butts warm. This is very wrong. Today they treat athletes like slaves. Thomas Bach and his team must be put to the test. Boxing has shown a lot of things. There is no need to scare us. The boxing family united and said, “To us, you are social outcasts. » Boxing will unite countries. We showed this at the World Championships, in which 121 countries participated. “Everything that the IBA earns belongs to the boxers and national federations that develop boxing,” reports the correspondent, according to Kremlev’s words.

Russian athletes have been suspended from international competitions due to the situation in Ukraine. At the end of March 2023, the IOC announced recommendations for the admission of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competitions. These include individual admission, neutral status, banning participation in team sports, and banning participation of athletes associated with security forces or who have expressed support for the SVO.