NEW DELHI: Boxing Federation of India (BFI) executive director RK Sacheti has been invited by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to “advise” on the formulation of rules for next year’s Olympic qualifiers.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formed an expert group to guide the ad-hoc boxing taskforce set up to organise and oversee the qualification and boxing competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics following the suspension of world boxing body (AIBA).
Sacheti was invited by the IOC’s Experts Group Committee, the BFI stated on Monday.
“The key objective of this group will be to enhance the boxing technical input into key considerations and decisions predominantly in regard to Competition Rules for the Qualifying Events and formulating the Boxing event rules at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games,” it said.
The IOC took control of the conduct of the Olympic qualifiers owing to a long-standing administrative mess in the International Boxing Association (AIBA).
The Experts Group will be meeting for the first time in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday.
The first Olympic qualifier, for the Asia zone, will be held in February next year.
