The International Olympic Committee has taken an important step to keep boxing for the Los Angeles Games program in 2028 because it recognized a new management committee for sport.
The IOC board granted World Boxing a preliminary recognition on Wednesday, a group that was founded in 2023 as a outlier of the long-term but restless international boxing association and picked up many former IBA members.
The IOC said that world boxes showed that 62 percent of boxers from the Olympic Games last year were connected to its members. The IOC add -on world boxing “has shown a strong willingness and effort in improving good government and implementation in order to meet the corresponding standards”.
Former Boxing Great Gennady Golovkin, who heads the Commission, who was commissioned with the founding of World Boxing as a credible body to lead Olympic fights, said it was an important moment, but there was still a lot of work remained.
“The preliminary Olympic recognition from the IOC is an important achievement and shows that our sport is on the right track. This decision brings us a step closer to our main goal – boxing at the Olympic Games,” said Golovkin in an explanation.
In 2019, the IOC suspended the IBA after many years of disputes about governance, its finances and the integrity of battles and assessments and took the rare step to ban the Olympic movement completely in 2023, shortly after the Breakaway of the World Boxing.
The IOC organized the boxing tournaments last year at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and at the Paris games, but said that a new partner needed on time for 2028.
Since it was suspended, the IBA and its Russian President Umar Kremlev have been missing with the IOC, in particular because of the rules for the election for the boxing of women at the Olympic Games in Paris, whereby the focus is on gold medalist IMAN KHELIF and LIN YU-TING. The IBA said this month that it was planned to submit criminal complaints against the IOC in the United States, France and Switzerland.
