LA 2028: Boxing set to be included after International Olympic Committee approval
The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee recommends including boxing at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
This sport is not part of the initial course Announced in 2022but last month the world boxing was Give temporary approval As the international governing body of the sport.
The proposal still needs to be approved by the IOC at a meeting in Greece this week, but outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach hopes to award it to Green Light.
“We have the ability to make this decision after the interim recognition of world boxing in February,” Bach said on Monday.
“This suggestion has to be attended, but I’m very confident that they will approve it so that all the boxers in the world can be sure they can attend the Olympics in Los Angeles.”
Creating a new global institution is the biggest obstacle that the sport will add to the next competition.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has been suspended as the world governing body of the sport for its governance, finance, referees and moral issues, and the IOC has boxed in the past two Olympics.
The Russian-led IBA was subsequently stripped of its failure to implement reforms in June 2023.
At the Olympic Games in Paris last year, IOC and IBA participated in the participation of two boxers at loggerheads, imagane Khelif in Algeria and Lin Yu-ting in Taiwan.
The IBA banned fighters in the 2023 World Championships, saying their gender qualification test failed, but the International Olympic Committee allowed them to compete and both won gold medals at the weight level.
Founded in April 2023, World Boxing now has 84 members on five continents, including the UK.
Last month, the International Olympic Committee said that world boxing meets several key standards temporarily recognized.
