The IBA was suspended by the IOC in 2019 for multiple corruption scandals.

The recommendation places doubt over the sport’s inclusion in future Games after Paris 2024.

On Tuesday, Olympic chiefs recommended the return to competition of Russian and Belarusian athletes as individual neutrals.

No timeline given for their potential participation at Paris Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it considered if Russians could compete as neutral athletes rather than under their national flag.

The men’s team had been due to play in qualifying play-offs in March for the World Cup in Qatar later this year.

Rob Koehler, a former Deputy Director-General of WADA, on doping, abuses of power and the legacy of the Beijing Olympics.

They accused the Russian and Belarussian governments of breaching the Olympic Truce.

The IOC say all 193 UN member states had agreed to a global truce until seven days after the end of the Winter Paralympic Games next month.

Valieva will skate in the Olympic women’s singles competition later on Tuesday.

The IOC would support an inquiry into the allegation of sexual assault made by Peng Shuai against a top-ranking Chinese politician – if she calls for one, its president Thomas Bach said

The IOC has received a report from Belarus’s Olympic committee, which is “being evaluated.”

‘The question is not whether, the question is how these Olympic Games will take place.’

However, the International Olympics Committee hasn’t asked for the resignation of the 83-year-old.

‘We are working day and night to organise a safe Olympic Games in Tokyo.’

The International Olympic Committee bans athletes from protesting at the Games.

IOC president Thomas Bach has admitted the Games will have to make some adjustments to meet the new reality.

Olympian and current secretary of the European Olympic Committee Athletes Commission, David Harte, speaks to The42.

The organisers released a statement this afternoon.

In another blow, the IAAF maintained a ban on the Russian athletics federation.

The upcoming AIBA-run world championships in Russia in September and October will not, as is usually the case, offer places to the event.

The Olympics take place in the French city in five years time.

The Dundalk boxer was speaking to Game On about the future of amateur boxing.

John Treacy has released a statement to criticise Wada’s decision to reinstate Russia.

The military has stepped in as 41 hospitalised with norovirus.

But Russian athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag.

Next week, the IOC will decide whether Russia can compete at next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Carlos Nuzman is alleged to have paid off colleagues in return for them voting in favour of the Brazilian city being Olympic host.

Grigory Rodchenkov fled to the US where he revealed the extent of the drug problem in Russian sports.

“It truly is a tale of two great Olympic cities,” said an IOC report that opted against naming one clear winner.

The consolation prize of the 2028 Olympic Games is of no interest to Paris and Los Angeles.

The New York Times article was published yesterday.

Hickey was arrested last August in Brazil.

Separately, charity boss Jonathan Irwin has defended Hickey. “I’m a bit like the rabbit who is absolutely entranced by the snake,” he said.

On Friday night Hickey, who has temporarily stepped aside as President of the Olympic Council of Ireland, was charged with criminal organisation, ticket touting, ambush marketing, larceny, money laundering, and tax evasion.

Rio police are seeking the arrest of OCI sports director Martin Burke, though he is not named on the same charges as Pat Hickey and Kevin Mallon.

It is not yet known on which sports the boxers had placed the bets.

The body’s executive committee met last night for the first time since the scandal broke.

Disappointment in the boxing ring but, overall, Ireland’s athletes punched above their weight as chaos raged around them.