The IOC Executive Board have scheduled an extra meeting to discuss boxing ©Getty Images

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has scheduled an additional meeting of the Executive Board tomorrow, after the International Boxing Association (IBA) despatched a report to Lausanne accusing the IOC of "disrespectfully ignoring" its overtures.

insidethegames understands that the Executive Board meeting will be held remotely.

The Board had not been scheduled to meet until later in the month from June 20 to June 22 but have scheduled tomorrow's meeting at short notice after receiving the IBA report.

"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 states, according to Reuters

"IBA is of the opinion that it successfully met the criteria mentioned in the roadmap."

In 2019, the IOC imposed a suspension on IBA due to concerns over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues.

It administered the boxing events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and has also taken control of qualification for Paris 2024.

"With regret, IBA admits that on 24 June 2022, the IOC unilaterally decided to conduct qualifying events and the boxing competitions at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 without participation of IBA, that itself created a problematic situation in boxing," the report continued.

The IBA, which is now led by Russian Umar Kremlev, has insisted that many short comings in governance came as a result of the activities of previous President CK Wu.

The International Olympic Committee administered boxing events at Tokyo 2020 after suspending the IBA from doing so ©Getty Images
The International Olympic Committee administered boxing events at Tokyo 2020 after suspending the IBA from doing so ©Getty Images

Kremlev, who took over as IBA President in 2020, has himself faced scrutiny because of his perceived close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A sponsorship deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom was widely criticised in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In its report, the IBA rebuffed IOC claims that they had provided no information on the diversification of income received by the federation.

"It is false statement by the IOC that no information on diversify of the IBA revenues has been provided by IBA," the report insisted.

"IBA keeps working on diversification of its incomes. 

"In particular, we significantly increased our incomes from the licensing programme, TV and marketing rights, and hosting the competitions."

IBA secretary general and chief executive George Yerolimpos told insidethegames in a statement: "We are extremely proud of all strides made towards creating the organisation we have today. 

"The years of intense work has paid off, and the IBA is a role model for international sports federations. 

"Today, for the sake of full transparency, we publish our report, as we have nothing to hide.

"We sincerely hope that the IOC has read the 400-page report in its entirety to take a correct and balanced decision regarding the future of boxing."

IBA secretary general and chief executive George Yerolimpos says the IBA is extremely proud of the steps taken to make the organisation what it is today ©IBA
IBA secretary general and chief executive George Yerolimpos says the IBA is extremely proud of the steps taken to make the organisation what it is today ©IBA

In April this year, World Boxing launched a challenge to the IBA's position as governing body of the sport.

A number of national organisations have already indicated that they plan to join the new organisation.

The IBA claimed it had sought dialogue with Olympic officials.

"Only this year IBA offered many times to enter into dialogue, however, all these requests have been disrespectfully ignored," the organisation claimed.

"IBA seeks acknowledgment of the extraordinary work done under the new management and requests a collaboration... in order to have the event run at the highest level," its dossier insisted.

Boxing has been included on the Olympic programme at every Games since Antwerp 1920 but the IOC has indicated that boxing could lose its position on the Olympic programme for LA 2028.

The programme for LA28 is expected to be finalised at the IOC Session in Mumbai, which is set to begin on October 15.

"Withdrawal of the IBA’s full recognition by the IOC will be not justified, fair and legally correct decision," the IBA report to Lausanne added.

The IBA added that they had not been informed by the IOC of any meeting to discuss their situation.