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The chances of rapprochement between the IOC and the IBA appear non-existent after the IOC reacted angrily to comments made by IBA president Umar Kremlev during the American Boxing Confederation Continental Forum in Brasilia.
Kremlev said one of his predecessors, the former IOC member CK Wu, should be "shot", and accused him of "killing boxing" with the complicity of IOC president Thomas Bach and IOC sports director Kit McConnell.
In a statement, the IOC said: "The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee condemns the violent and threatening language used by the president of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, against a number of individuals from the IOC.
"Incitement of hatred and derogatory language against individuals working for the IOC, who are simply carrying out their professional roles, and against the IOC as an organisation, is simply unacceptable.
"Making accusations against them that they are 'covering up crimes' is highly defamatory.
"Furthermore, calling for an individual formerly linked to the IOC to be 'shot' is language that has no place in sport or in any normal civilised debate."