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Boxing Canada latest country to resign from IBA and join World Boxing

  • Boxing

Boxing Canada has become the latest country to announce that it is resigning from the International Boxing Association (IBA) and joining rival group World Boxing.

Cali.Canada topped the medals table with four golds in an event missing several leading nations, including USA

GB Boxing, England Boxing, and the Dutch Boxing Federation were all approved as members, along with USA



Duncan Mackay: IOC recognition and getting African support will decide whether or not World Boxing succeeds

  • Inside the Blogs

World Boxing’s announcement of its first six members yesterday demonstrated that the fledgling governing body still has a long, long way to go before it can claim to have fulfilled its main stated aim of ensuring it represents the sport in the Olympic Movement.

Apart from USA Boxing, which was the first National Federation to join the breakaway organisation from

President Umar Kremlev, whose connections at the Kremlin reach the very top.Tyson Lee, President of USA

that its fighters should "refrain from participating in any international tournaments affiliated with USA



Six official members of World Boxing announced

  • Boxing

World Boxing, the governing body set up to rival the International Boxing Association (IBA), has announced its first six official members.

Apart from USA Boxing, which was the first National Federation to join the new body dismissed by the

future for the sport and everyone connected to it, based on collaboration, consultation and consensus," USA


World Boxing calls for candidates to stand for Presidency in first elections

  • Boxing

World Boxing is calling for candidates to run for Presidency as the governing body - a rival to the International Boxing Association (IBA) - seeks to establish an Executive Board.

controversial IBA Presidential election, is among World Boxing's Interim Executive Board.Other members include USA


Trump mocks Rapinoe after penalty miss in US defeat at FIFA Women’s World Cup

  • Football

Former United States President Donald Trump mocked Megan Rapinoe following her miss in the American team’s penalty shootout defeat to Sweden at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA (Make America Great Again)."

ImagesCriticism was also levelled at Rapinoe by Benny Johnson, chief creative officer at Turning Point USA

injustice.BREAKING: Woke US Women’s Soccer HumiliationAfter winning back-to-back World Cups the heavily favored Team USA


USA Gymnastics strikes five-year deal with Nike before Paris 2024

  • Gymnastics

USA Gymnastics has announced a new five-year sponsorship deal with sportswear giant Nike before next

chief executive Li Li Leung.Nike is set to manufacture and produce all sportswear and footwear for USA

apparel at international events and training camps.Leung described the agreement as the "largest" in USA

Leung was appointed as President and chief executive of USA Gymnastics in February 2019 - a year after

wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.Nassar abused hundreds of athletes while working as a USA

We’re outfitting USA Gymnastics national teams and championing fun at every level of gymnastics to spark


Biles makes winning return to gymnastics at US Classic after two-year gap but refuses to commit to Paris 2024

  • Gymnastics

America's Simone Biles made a winning return to gymnastics at the US Classic event in Chicago 732 days after winning the Olympic bronze medal on the balance beam at Tokyo 2020. 

cameras, although she has yet to confirm if she will seek further Olympic medals in Paris next year, USA

blessing," added Biles, one of dozens of elite gymnasts who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of jailed USA






Staging of 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene wasn't ideal, says Coe

  • Athletics

Staging last year's World Athletics Championships in the United States for the first time - at the rebuilt Hayward Field arena in Eugene, Oregon - "wasn’t ideal", according to World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

sold.Coe added, "This is always a balance, but we have always said we would do what we could to help USA