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. “As long as the war is going on and as Russian troops are on the territory of our country … they will not participate,” he said.
Despite being removed from the Paris qualification process due to governance and other issues, the IBA has said both championships will be “main qualification events” for 2024 – a decision condemned by USA Boxing as “false and misleading”. The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 and stripped it of involvement in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to governance, finance, refereeing and ethical issues. Qualifying for Paris is being organised by the IOC. The sport’s Olympic future remains uncertain. Boxing is not on the initial programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, pending reforms demanded by the IOC, which warned in December that it might also have to consider cancelling the Paris programme.
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