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PARIS — Algerian Imane Khelif won welterweight gold Friday, dispatching China’s Yang Liu and overcoming a firestorm of questions from opponents wrongly questioning her gender. "Your victory today belongs to Algeria, and your gold is Algeria’s gold. Khelif held up her gold medal for the cameras and said this was a culmination of eight years of work. Khelif and Lin are veteran fighters and well-known in the women’s boxing community. She was the first Algerian boxer to participate in the Olympics and win the most beautiful medal,” the Algerian Olympic Committee wrote on Facebook.
Persons: Imane Khelif, China’s Yang Liu, Khelif, Roland, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Lin Yu, Ting, Angela Carini, Yang, didn’t, Lin, , Umar Kremlev, Khelif’s, sparred, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Toufik Koudri, , David K, Li, Sam Brock, Rima Abdelkader Organizations: Roland, Garros, Team Algeria, Algerian, Boxing, IBA, IOC, USA, Gazprom, United Nations, Olympics, Algerian Olympic, Facebook Locations: PARIS, Algerian, Algeria, USA, Europe, Chinese Taipei, France, Russian, New Delhi, Bulgarian, Paris, Russia, , Connecticut
PARIS — The second boxer at the center of a global debate over gender eligibility and fairness at the Paris Olympics won her semifinal match Wednesday, ascending to the featherweight gold medal bout. Lin and another female Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif of Algeria, continue to face intense scrutiny and false accusations about their gender and eligibility to compete with women. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee later confirmed that Staneva was boasting about having XX chromosomes in an attempt to mock Lin. "The opponent is a respectable one.”Algeria's Imane Khelif reacts after defeating Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng in a women's 66-kilogram semifinal boxing match at the Olympics on Tuesday. Some who initially criticized Khelif and Lin apologized as more information about them and the IBA’s legitimacy came to light.
Persons: Lin Yu, Esra Yildiz, Lin, Imane, Kahraman, Svetlana Staneva, Staneva, Turkey's, Peter Byrne, ” Lin, couldn't, Khelif, Thailand's Janjaem, Ariana Cubillos, Thailand’s Janjaem, Umar Kremlev —, Vladimir Putin —, Thomas Bach, ” Bach, Aijaz, , Mark Adams, ​ “, Lin’s, Khelif’s, Kremlev, Imane Khelif, Vadim Ghirda, Elon Musk, Harry Potter ”, J.K, Rowling, Donald Trump, ” Trump, Logan Paul, ” Riley Gaines, Nikki Hiltz, , ” Hiltz, it’s, ” Khelif, Yang Liu of, Julia Szeremeta, Garros, David K, Li, Matt Lavietes, Jiachuan Wu Organizations: PARIS, Paris Olympics, Bulgarian Olympic, Representatives, Turkish Olympic, Press, AP, Tokyo, Boxing Association, Olympic Committee, IOC, IBA, SNTV, USA, Olympics, X, Boston Globe, Roland Locations: Taipei, Turkey, Algeria, Paris, Russian, New Delhi, Russia, Hangzhou, China, Istanbul, , Yang Liu of China, Taiwan, New York
One of the two female boxers at the center of an Olympic gender controversy pleaded with the public to “avoid bullying all athletes” Sunday night. The association alleged that the women failed to pass unspecified gender tests that found they had male chromosomes. The International Boxing Association, whose president is Umar Kremlev of Russia, reportedly an acquaintance of President Vladimir Putin, has had its legitimacy scrutinized in recent years. (In Olympic boxing, there are no third-place matches, so two bronze medals are awarded to the semifinal losers.) Khelif also clinched an Olympic medal Saturday after defeating Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori in a unanimous decision.
Persons: Algeria’s Imane, Lin Yu, ” Khelif, Lin, Khelif, Thomas Bach, SNTV, , ” Lin, Mark Adams, ​ ”, Umar Kremlev, Vladimir Putin, Khelif’s, Elon Musk, Harry Potter, J.K, Rowling, she’s, ” Rowling, Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni, Sen, Marco Rubio, ” Trump, Nikki Hiltz, ” Hiltz, Bulgarian Svetlana Staneva, Turkey’s, Kahraman, Anna Luca Hamori, Janjaem Suwannapheng Organizations: Olympic Charter, SNTV, Olympic Committee, Paris Olympics, Boxing Association, International Boxing Association, Elon, Bulgarian Locations: Taiwan, Algerian, Tokyo, Russian, Russia, Istanbul, Paris, , Donald Trump , Italian, Thailand
The news conference had been billed as an effort by international boxing authorities to clear up the reasons they banned two athletes from a women’s competition last year, and a chance to shed crucial light on what has become the biggest controversy at the Paris Olympics. Instead, the gathering started 90 minutes late, then veered into the chaotic almost immediately. And when it ended about two hours later, almost nothing about the controversy had been clarified at all. The head of the International Boxing Association, an organization no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee to oversee the sport at the Games, had promised answers about why the organization excluded the two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan. Instead, appearing on a giant video screen from a room decorated with religious iconography, the association’s Russian president, Umar Kremlev, delivered wild accusations, personal attacks and employed questionable language when detailing the two women's cases.
Persons: Imane, Lin Yu, Umar Kremlev Organizations: Paris, International Boxing Association, International Olympic Committee, Games Locations: Algeria, Taiwan, Russian
Bach said there was “never any doubt” about Yu-ting and Khelif being women. The decision came shortly after Khelif beat Russian boxer Azalia Amineva, who was previously undefeated. Jan Woitas / dpa / picture alliance via Getty Images“I strongly condemn the baseless attacks on our athlete, Imane Khelif, by certain foreign outlets,” Abderrahmane Hammad, Algeria’s minister of youth and sports, wrote on X. “Simply put, Imane Khelif and the other athletes being targeted met the criteria to compete in the Olympics. Yu-ting, 28, beat Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday and will face Bulgaria’s Svetlana Kamenova Staneva on Sunday.
Persons: Imane Khelif, Thomas Bach, Lin Yu, Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori, Khelif, , Bach, ” Bach, Angela Carini, Carini, Yu, Fabio Bozzani, Umar Kremlev, Vladimir Putin, Azalia Amineva, , Amar Khelif, Sheng Jiapeng, ” Carini, Harry Potter ”, J.K, Rowling, she’s, ” Rowling, Donald Trump, Jan Woitas, Imane, Abderrahmane Hammad, ” Ismaël, Nikki Hiltz, ” Khelif’s, Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova, Svetlana Kamenova Staneva Organizations: Olympic, Hungarian, IOC, Paris Games, Khelif, Getty, International Boxing Association, Tokyo Games, Reuters, International Olympic, Algerian national, Olympic Games, Black Justice, Locations: Italy, Algerian, Anadolu, New Delhi, Russia, Paris,
Villepinte, France AP —Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout Thursday when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds. Carini and Khelif exchanged only a few punches before Carini walked away and abandoned the bout — an extremely unusual occurrence in Olympic boxing. They were allowed to compete in Paris by the IOC task force, which has run the past two Olympic boxing tournaments. Olympic boxing reached gender parity for the first time this year, with 124 men and 124 women competing in Paris. Several sports have updated their gender rules over the past three years, including World Aquatics, World Athletics and the International Cycling Union.
Persons: Angela Carini, Khelif, Carini, , ” Carini, it’s, ” Khelif, Lin Yu, Lin, Uzbekistan’s, Imane, Giorgia Meloni, we’re, Meloni, ” Meloni, Mark Adams, , ” Lin, Umar Kremlev, Caitlin Parker, It’s, Nicole Winfield Organizations: France AP, Paris Olympics, North Paris, IBA, Algerian Olympic, Tokyo Games, IOC, Athletics, International Cycling Union, Gazprom, Los Angeles Games, Sport, Swiss, Tribunal, Associated Locations: Villepinte, France, Algeria, Italy, Taiwan, Paris, Janeiro, Russia, Australia, Rome
On the line are Olympic medals – gold, silver and bronze – as well as the recognition that comes with them. But, unlike many other professional sports, financial reward isn’t necessarily a prize awarded to Olympic athletes in the past. Here’s everything you need to know about Olympic athletes and the compensation they can receive. A Paris 2024 Olympic Games gold medal (top) is seen on display with Paralympic Games gold (right) and silver medals (left). “And they do so and then many of them reward the athletes with prize money for winning medals or diplomas or whatever.
Persons: James B, Connolly, Louis, Benoit Tessier, , Mark Conrad, ” Conrad, Umar Kremlev, Thomas Bach, Bach, Gabriel Monnet, , ” Bach, Conrad, Simone Biles, Sha’Carri Richardson, Biles, Organizations: CNN, Olympic, Olympic Games, Eiffel, Paralympic Games, International Olympic Committee, IOC, National Olympic Committees, International Federations, NOC, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, Games, Olympics, Athletics, WA, Los, Association of, International Boxing Association, IBA, Getty, , Paralympic, Forbes Locations: Massachusetts, St, Paris, AFP, Beijing,
[1/2] International Boxing Association(IBA) president Umar Kremlev speaks during the opening ceremony of Women's World Boxing Championships at Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium in New Delhi, India, March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File PhotoLAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 22 (Reuters) - The International Boxing Association's (IBA) recognition as the global body for the sport was stripped on Thursday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) due to its failure to complete reforms on governance, finance and ethical issues. While the IOC regularly removes or adds sports to the Olympic Games programme to make them more attractive to younger audiences, it is extremely rare for the Olympic body to strip an international sports federation's recognition. "This is a hugely significant moment for the sport," World Boxing said in a statement. "We urge every national federation ... to join and support World Boxing in its efforts to ensure boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic movement."
Persons: Umar Kremlev, Anushree, Karolos Grohmann, Alan Baldwin, Jon Boyle, Ken Ferris, Toby Davis Organizations: Boxing Association, Indira Gandhi, REUTERS, International Olympic Committee, IBA, Sport, IOC, Tokyo, Tokyo Games, Gazprom, Olympic Games, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russian, Los Angeles
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 20 (Reuters) - The International Boxing Association (IBA) has failed to reverse the stripping of its recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday rejecting its urgent appeal. On Tuesday the IOC Executive Board also objected to comments made by the IBA leadership at a regional meeting in Brazil. "The President of the Appeals Arbitration Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today dismissed the IBA’s urgent request," CAS said. On Tuesday the IOC Executive Board said it objected to language used by IBA President Umar Kremlev at an American Boxing Confederation meeting in Brasilia. "The Executive Board of the IOC condemns the violent and threatening language used by the President of the IBA, Umar Kremlev, against a number of individuals from the IOC," it said in a statement.
Persons: Umar Kremlev, Karolos Grohmann, Ken Ferris Organizations: Boxing Association, International Olympic Committee, Sport, IOC, IBA, American Boxing Confederation, Continental, Reuters, Thomson Locations: LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Brazil, Brasilia
PARIS, June 7 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee executive board on Wednesday recommended withdrawing recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA) over its failure to meet a set of reforms, the Olympic body said in a statement. "The report establishes that the IBA has failed to fulfil the conditions set by the IOC... for lifting the suspension of the IBA’s recognition." In an IBA report sent to the IOC recently, the association blamed the Olympic body for intransigence and false statements. The Swiss Boxing Federation last week became the latest national ruling body of the sport to leave IBA and join the rival boxing organisation. The newly formed boxing body includes the United States and Britain as well as New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden, who joined the Swiss-registered World Boxing in April.
Persons: Umar Kremlev, Karolos Grohmann, Gareth Jones, Ed Osmond Organizations: Olympic Committee, International Boxing Association, IOC, Olympic Games, IBA, Tokyo, Gazprom, Swiss Boxing Federation, Swiss, Boxing, Thomson Locations: Los, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Britain, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - Boxing must stay in the Olympic Games and the International Boxing Association (IBA) will do everything for it to happen but the sport also wants respect and will not be run by third parties, IBA President Umar Kremlev said. "The current crisis situation and the past scandals were all situations created by the member of the IOC, Mr CK Wu." The IOC has not sanctioned CK Wu, who in 2020 resigned from the Olympic body citing medical reasons. According to the IBA report, repeated efforts by IBA officials to meet with IOC officials were ignored. We would like the IOC to also achieve this principle of becoming the home of the Olympic movement," Kremlev said.
Persons: Umar Kremlev, Kremlev, Thomas Bach, CK Wu, Wu, Taiwan's Wu, Karolos Grohmann, Ken Ferris Organizations: Olympic Games, International Boxing Association, Reuters, IBA, IOC, AIBA, CK, Gazprom, Thomson Locations: Los, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Russian
PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee will hold a one-day executive board meeting on Wednesday with the embattled International Boxing Association (IBA) in focus, sources said on Tuesday. The IOC has a planned executive board meeting set for June 20-22 but has now scheduled Wednesday's event following an IBA report on the state of required reforms sent to the Olympic body. Two sources with knowledge of proceedings confirmed to Reuters the meeting on Wednesday, with boxing in the spotlight. The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues and did not involve it in running the boxing events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The IBA report sent to the IOC recently blamed the Olympic body for intransigence and false statements while claiming the IBA had done enough to meet reform criteria.
Persons: Umar Kremlev, Karolos, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Olympic, International Boxing Association, IOC, IBA, Reuters, Paris, Thomson Locations: Los, India
PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - With boxing teetering on the brink of Olympic elimination, the International Boxing Association (IBA) told the International Olympic Committee it had met its reform criteria and any ban lacked legal basis. "IBA did its best to eliminate IOC’s concern on IBA’s different areas of work and to improve them, such as finances, governance and sports integrity," the IBA report said. "It is necessary to remind that CK Wu at that time was an IOC member, and it is completely wrong that IBA bears full responsibility for the wrongdoings of the IOC member," the IBA said. "The IOC surpassed IBA completely and contacted the officials without prior agreement of data sharing between the two entities." "Withdrawal of the IBA’s full recognition by the IOC will be not justified, fair and legally correct decision," it said.
Persons: Umar Kremlev, CK Wu, Karolos, Christian Radnedge Organizations: International Boxing Association, International Olympic, IOC, Reuters, IBA, Paris, Gazprom, International Federation, Olympic Games, Thomson Locations: Los, India, Ukraine, Paris
May 1 (Reuters) - International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev blasted the national federations who broke away from the body to form a new world boxing federation, describing the officials as 'black sheep' and 'hyenas' who do not belong in sport. But Russian Kremlev, who is in Tashkent for the IBA men's world championships, said the IBA is the only international association that governs the sport. Someone tried to register an international association from their garage, why should we even consider them," Kremlev told a news conference. "We did not terminate the (Gazprom) contract as there were obligations to complete... Most federations were against Gazprom being sponsor, but at the (IBA) Congress there were no objections."
USA Boxing withdraws from Russian-led world body IBA
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
April 27 (Reuters) - USA Boxing, representing the most successful country in the sport's Olympic history, has left the International Boxing Association (IBA) and will join the breakaway federation World Boxing. Mike McAtee, chief executive of USA Boxing, wrote in a letter to members on Wednesday that the withdrawal was effective immediately. "USA Boxing will immediately begin the World Boxing application process and submit the required application on the first day of acceptance, on or about May 1, 2023," he added. "USA Boxing is committed to work tirelessly with World Boxing, like-minded national federations and worldwide Olympic-style boxing community to earn the privilege to be part of the Olympic Movement now and in the years to come." USA Boxing is certified by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee as the national governing body for Olympic-Style boxing in the United States.
Russia and Belarus boxers should compete, IBA president says
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
March 3 (Reuters) - Russia and Belarus athletes should be able to compete under their flag, said International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev on Friday. The IBA lifted a ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers last October, against the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) guidance following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year. Each international association should have these standards," Kremlev told Reuters. "We, as an international association, must protect each athlete. Kremlev disciplinary actions targets USA Boxing CEO Mike McAtee, President of Boxing Canada Ryan O'Shea, Czech Boxing Association President Marek Simak, Swedish Boxing Association Chairman Per-Axel Sjoholm and Boxing New Zealand President Steve Hartley.
Feb 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine's boxing federation (FBU) has joined a growing boycott of the amateur world championships over the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian boxers, who have been allowed to compete with national flags and anthems. Both competitions are organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA), led by Russian Umar Kremlev. The IBA lifted a ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers competing under their flags last October, against the International Olympic Committee's guidance following Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago, for which Belarus was a key staging area. "Our answer is clear - our athletes and representatives of the Boxing Federation of Ukraine do not compete where representatives of the aggressor countries, namely Russia and Belarus, will compete," Ilchenko said. Ukraine's boxers would also boycott next year's Olympic Games in Paris if Russian and Belarusian boxers are present, Ilchenko said.
LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Amateur boxing's Russian-led governing body has offered to fund U.S. and Irish boxers wanting to compete in this year's world championships after their national federations decided to boycott the tournaments. The International Boxing Association (IBA) also warned in a statement on Friday that it would pursue "strong sanctions against those who initiate and join the participation boycott". "Those who are doing this to our athletes are worse than hyenas and jackals, they violate the integrity of sport and culture. The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) said on Friday its boxers, referees and judges would be staying away. "IBA invites USA and Irish teams to come to the world championships and participate under their flags and anthems," it said.
IBA extraordinary congress votes against holding new election
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Denis BalibouseSept 25 (Reuters) - Russian Umar Kremlev will remain president of the International Boxing Association (IBA) after delegates at its extraordinary congress in Armenia on Sunday rejected the proposal to stage a new election. Dutch candidate Boris van der Vorst's hopes of challenging Kremlev for the presidency ended after 106 delegates voted against holding a new election, with 36 voting in favour and four abstaining. Kremlev was elected unopposed in May after Van der Vorst was declared ineligible. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in June that Van der Vorst was wrongly prevented from standing. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Hritika Sharma in Bengaluru, editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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