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The International Olympic Committee’s patience with boxing’s troubled governing body looks to be wearing thin following “disturbing developments” at the IBA’s

The furore over the election of the IBA president is a grave warning that boxing will fail to be restored to the LA Olympics, writes John Dennen

Russias Umar Kremlev becomes AIBA president. Is he the man to save the beleaguered organisation? AIBA, the governing body for international amateur boxing, has elected a new president. Russia’s Umar Kremlev has been chosen to head the beleaguered organisation. In the final round of voting in the remote election on December 12, Kremlev won 86 votes of member federations, to Boris Van der Vorst’s 45 votes and Mohamed Moustahsane, the interim president’s 19 votes. There were five abstentions...