International boxing federation opens disciplinary procedure against Boxing Canada & More News Here

The International Boxing Association is launching an investigation into Boxing Canada after athletes’ claims of widespread abuse.

The IBA’s administrators accepted the transfer, “in order to safeguard members of the boxing community in line with the IBA anti-harassment and abuse policy.”

A disciplinary procedure has additionally been opened against Boxing Canada.

Boxing Canada’s excessive efficiency director Daniel Trepanier resigned on Sunday, 4 days after dozens of present and former Canadian boxers — together with three-time world champion Mary Spencer and 11-time nationwide champion Mandy Bujold — signed an open letter to Sport Canada in regards to the “toxic culture of fear and silence.” They requested for a third-party investigation and Trepanier’s resignation.

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The athletes painted an image of a hostile surroundings of homophobic, misogynistic and sexist feedback. They stated there have been security considerations — together with being compelled to spar regardless of having concussion signs — and stated there is a lack of impartiality round issues just like the dispersal of funds, and rampant favouritism that clouds choices round workforce choice.

The IBA pulled Trepanier’s accreditation from the ladies’s world championships which started Sunday in Istanbul, though Boxing Canada claimed he hadn’t deliberate to attend the occasion.

National workforce coaches and athletes had referred to as for Trepanier’s resignation earlier than. In a letter to Boxing Canada in 2014, they wrote: “We the coaches and athletes of the National Team no longer want to work with Daniel Trepanier.

A 2016 study commissioned by Own the Podium and Boxing Canada found the high performance program severely lacking. Part of the conclusion said that Boxing Canada has “stood nonetheless all through a interval of serious change to their sport in a world context.”

A statement Sunday from Boxing Canada president Ryan Savage on Trepanier’s resignation criticized the IBA.

“It is necessary to recall that the International Olympic Committee formally took over the boxing qualification and competitors of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic boxing event after excluding the IBA,” Savage said. “As such, Boxing Canada doesn’t consider that the IBA has the credibility to guide an ethics assessment till it has resolved its personal inside affairs and reinstated by the IOC.”