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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The president of the International Boxing Association is offering financial support to American boxers who defy a U.S. boycott of the upcoming world championships, which he said was decided by people “worse than hyenas and jackals.”
Ukrainian world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk has told International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach that achievements by Russian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics would be "medals of blood, deaths and tears".
Boris van der Vorst has been accused by the International Boxing Association of slandering African countries after he claimed that they were bribed on the eve of the organisation’s Extraordinary Congress in Armenia last year.
Africa Boxing Confederation President Bertrand Mendouga has set up a "marketing committee" to address funding issues problems facing the sport in the continent.
Pearl Dlamini, who became the first African woman to serve on the Board of the International Boxing Association as one of the 10 new members voted in on May 10 last year, has spoken of the priorities facing the organisation as it seeks to regain its place in the Olympic family.