Aiba threatens to sue IOC if stripped of right to run amateur boxing

• Amateur boxing’s governing body locked in row with IOC
• IOC poised to announce Aiba is impossible to work with

Amateur boxing’s world governing body, Aiba, is planning to up the ante in its fight with the International Olympic Committee by filing a lawsuit if it is stripped of its right to run the sport in the run-up to Tokyo 2020, the Observer can reveal.

The extraordinary move, outlined in a private email by Aiba’s interim president, Mohamed Moustahsane, to his executive committee this week, comes as the IOC president, Thomas Bach, warned on Saturday that organising an Olympic qualifying tournament “is not rocket science, so I guess we will be able to manage it”.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WtLdjm

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