Boxing and boxers may end up as collateral damage in Putin’s dirty war

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Gazprom is 38 per cent owned by the Kremlin, two other Russian state companies owning an additional 12 per cent. No prizes for guessing where much of that money is going right now and it’s destroying somewhere beginning with U.

According to the Inside the Games website, who know their stuff on these matters, the Gazprom deal is pumping around $31 million into the IBA. We don’t know that for sure because IBA says it’s “commercially confidential” but it’s hard to see where else the cash is coming from. has suspended all funding to the IBA, previously AIBA, given its history of corruption, and questioned the Gazprom deal last December, well before the invasion.

Not after any election, incidentally, but by acclaim rather after his chief rival, Boris van der Vorst from the Netherlands, plus four other candidates, were deemed ineligible 24 hours previously by the Boxing Independent Integrity Unit for “campaigning outside the electoral period”.

 

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