Boxing body won't hold new election, damaging Olympic hopes
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev attend an opening of the new International Sambo and Boxing centre at the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev attend an opening of the new International Sambo and Boxing centre at the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Sep. 10, 2022 08:33 AM EDT
FILE - Umar Kremlev, General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation and member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association, holds a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 27, 2020. Kremlev will remain the president of the International Boxing Association after the body voted against holding a new election Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, a decision that puts the Olympic future of boxing in serious doubt amid another round of turmoil in the sport's amateur governing body. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

FILE - Umar Kremlev, General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation and member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association, holds a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 27, 2020. Kremlev will remain the president of the International Boxing Association after the body voted against holding a new election Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, a decision that puts the Olympic future of boxing in serious doubt amid another round of turmoil in the sport's amateur governing body. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Sep. 25, 2022 04:39 PM EDT