Amateur boxing has been plunged into a fresh crisis after the sole rival to the sport’s Russian president was barred from standing on the eve of the International Boxing Association’s election.
Sources close to IBA have indicated that the Dutch candidate Boris van der Vorst, who had been due to challenge Umar Kremlev for the IBA presidency, was barred for breaching their regulations by being part of an alliance of 18 countries that had openly criticised IBA’s reaction to the war in Ukraine and its reliance on Gazprom funding.
Van Der Vorst is now appealing to the court of arbitration for sport after being blindsided by the news. Five other candidates for IBA’s executive board, who were also on the Common Cause Alliance pressure group opposed to Kremlev, have also been barred from Friday’s elections in Istanbul.
The decision leaves bo …
- May 13, 2022
