Athletics' world body on Monday led a withdrawal from a major international sports association after its leader launched a public attack on IOC chief Thomas Bach.
Controversy erupted at the Sport Accord convention in the Russian resort of Sochi after its leader Marius Vizer accused Bach of blocking his plans to set up multi-sport events.
The presidents of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) gave immediate notice at the Sport Accord convention that they are leaving the group in protest
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Vizer, head of the International Judo Federation
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"Mr President, stop blocking the Sport Accord strategy in its mission to identify and organize conventions and multi-sport games
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Sport Accord is a body for international federations inside and outside the Olympic Games and organizers of sports events. It has had an increasingly tense relationship with the IOC since candidates were stopped from making bid presentations at Sport Accord's annual convention, which is billed as the world's biggest sports business event.
Vizer's proposal to hold a United World Games with several sports has also infuriated the IOC
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"Do not interfere in the autonomy of the sport organizations," Vizer said
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Bach, who has made IOC reforms and the new television a pillar of his presidency
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The German IOC president ironically thanked Vizer for his "friendly welcome."
"My impression is a little bit that your opinions you have exclusively for you," Bach said.
He said other sports had made "constructive proposals which are ending up in even closer cooperation between the IOC and international federations."
Bach flatly rejected discussing any new model for the distribution of the IOC's multi-billion dollar revenues. "I have to very clearly say 'no.'"
The athletics and shooting federation presidents announced their intention to withdraw shortly after and a letter to Vizer was negotiated in the hours after.
SOFIA, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The 68th edition of the Strandja International Boxing Tournament kicked off here in the Sofia hall on Tuesday.
More than 280 athletes from 35 countries and regions, including China, participated in the six-day event, which is the oldest and one of the toughest international boxing tournaments in Europe.
For the tournament, the number of participants grows every year, and now there are representatives from all continents, Krassimir Ininski, President of the Bulgarian Boxing Federation said.
"This year's race is the start of a new Olympic cycle, so we will see not only winners of medals and titles of the major championships, but also a lot of young boxers who have yet to prove themselves," Ininski said as quoted by the press office of his federation.
The semifinals will be on Saturday and the finals are scheduled for Sunday.
Last year at the 67th edition of "Strandja", the Chinese boxers won three gold, two silver and one bronze medals.
BEIJING, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- A Beijing railway station, which has been in use since the early 1900s, will take its place in the annals of Chinese history as the nation charges full steam ahead with the development of its high-speed rail (HSR) network.
Qinghuayuan Station, which was once the main rail transportation hub linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou, a city in the northern province of Hebei, closed Tuesday, as transportation authorities concentrate on a new HSR line between the two cities, according to Beijing Railway Bureau (BRB).
According to BRB, the new Beijing-Zhangjiakou HSR line will run underground within Beijing's Fifth Ring Road, making the track and stations of the original Beijing-Zhangjiakou route obsolete.
For the time being, a temporary station has been set up for trains that once stopped at the old station, the BRB said.
Since the first piece of HSR track was laid in the early 2000s, China's HSR has seen average annual growth of passenger trips of 30 percent and the whole network was over 20,000-kilometers long by Sept.12, according to China Railway Corp.
China's top economic planner wants the rail network to exceed 175,000 km by 2025. The new Beijing-Zhangjiakou HSR will help the railway authority achieve that target. Undertaken, in part, to support the flow of visitors to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, the new 170-km line will be operational by 2019.
As the nation pushes to upgrade its transportation infrastructure, it will not be long until the last call is made at many of China's other stations and their trains embark on their final journeys.
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Zhan Tianyou was appointed by the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to preside over the construction of the railway in 1905. His calligraphy, of the station's name, still adorns the original building's gateway.
"Qinghuayuan Station has stood the test of time, if only its walls could speak. Oh the stories they could tell!" said Liu Fengqiang, the previous head of the station. "The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was the first long-distance railway track in Chinese history, and a hugely arduous undertaking."
The station also predates Tsinghua University, which was established in 1911, and the founding of New China in 1949, Liu added.
"In March 1949, Mao Zedong relocated from Xibaipo, Hebei, to Beijing, but as he was nearing.