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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ratified on Thursday an executive board recommendation by 69 votes to one to strip the International Boxing Association's (IBA) recognition as the global governing body of the sport.
The IOC's online extraordinary session approved the decision over what the IOC said was failure to complete reforms on governance, finance and ethical issues.
The IOC had previously suspended the IBA in 2019 and did not involve it in the running of boxing events at the Tokyo Olympics.
Boxing remains to be part of the Paris 2024 Olympics but the qualification bouts and the competition are being run by the IOC and not the IBA, as was the case in Tokyo.
The IBA had called the IOC board's recommendation "truly abhorrent and purely political" and tried to have it blocked through an urgent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sports highest court, which rejected the appeal on Tuesday.
(With input from Reuters)
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