The Executive Council of the International Olympic Committee recommended the inclusion of boxing on Monday at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, ending an end to a saga of years on the future sports sports.
Last month, the IOC granted the provisional recognition to the World Boxing Federation, an important step towards the inclusion of sport at the 2028 Olympic Games.
“After the provisional recognition of World Boxing in February, we were able to make this decision, so this recommendation should go to the session,” said the president of Coi Thomas Bach in a press conference. “I am confident that the session will approve it.”
The recommendation will now be placed at one vote at the IOC session in Greece this week and should be easily approved, with the boxing between popular Olympic sports.
The boxing competition at the Paris 2024 Games was administered by the IOC after the International Boxing Association was deprived of recognition in 2023 because it has not implemented the reforms of governance and finance.
The Cio did not include sport in the initial program of La 2028, having requested the national boxing federations to create a new global boxing agency. World Boxing, now with over 80 national federations as members, was launched in 2023.
“This is a very significant and important decision for Olympic boxing and takes a step forward to sport to be restored to the Olympic program,” said Boris Van Der Vorst, president of World Boxing, in a note.
“I have no doubts that it will be welcomed in a very positive way by all those who are linked to boxing, at all levels, all over the world, which include the fundamental importance for the future of boxing to continue to be part of the Olympic movement”.
The athletes whose national federations are members of world boxing at the time of the start of qualifying events for the 2028 games of 2028 could participate in Los Angeles.
Source: Terra
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