MOSCOW: Time is “rapidly” running out to organize an Olympic tournament in 2020, the executive director of the International Boxing Association said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) amid disputes with the International Olympic Committee and a breakaway group of boxing officials.

Tom Virgets told The Associated Press that boxers from poorer African and Asian countries already face losing crucial funding with the qualifying system still not confirmed.

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