Boxing could be knocked out of the 2020 Tokyo games if the International Olympic Committee (IOC)is not satisfied problems with the sport’s finances and governance are sorted out.

The warning came from president of the Ioc Thomas Bach yesterday. Bach said the IOC was “extremely worried” about how the sport was run and said the body was prepared to make bold decisions.

Bach said the IOC reserves the right to review the inclusion of boxing in the programs of the youth Olympics 2018 and Tokyo 2020, and added that the IOC would be freezing all contacts with the sport’s governing (AIBA) “excluding the ones on a working level necessary to implement the respective IOC decisions”.

AIBA said the IOC decision was “extremely disappointing” after the boxing body had submitted a progress report as requested. Following a two-day executive board meeting in Pyeongchang, Bach said the IOC had not been satisfied with the AIBA report and that it would be opening an investigation into the body.

AIBA has been riven with in-fighting for months, with former president and ioc member Ck Wu first provisionally suspended and then stepping down last November after a bitter dispute with his executive committee.

AIBA said in a statement that the IOC had demanded a new report on its governance by April 30th and it would comply with that.