Boxing to be included in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics | Sport-others News

Boxing will be included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics after it has been unanimously voted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members at the 144th session in Greece on Thursday. All the members raised their hands when the IOC president asked them to raise hands in favor of boxing to be included for the next Olympics.
“After the provisional recognition of World Boxing in February we were in a position to take this decision,” Bach said on Monday.”This recommendation has to go to the session, but I am very confident they will approve it so that all the boxers of the world then have certainty they can participate in the Olympic Games in LA.”
Once provisional status was awarded to World Boxing, it was only a matter of time before the sport was set to be included back into the Olympic fold. The IOC, under Bach, has strived to keep the IBA out of the Olympic charter citing the Russian leadership and money flowing into the organization, as well as the issue of scoring in boxing that has plagued the sport since the 10-9 system was adopted from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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“I thank you for the approval of having boxing back in the Olympic programme. We can look forward to a great boxing tournament,” Bach said on Thursday after the approval. “It doesn’t happen often that the proposal for programmes happen unanimously but this commission is breaking record after record.” Boxing was not included on the LA 28 initial sports programme approved the IOC Session in February 2022 because of the concerns that had gripped the then federation, the International Boxing Association (IBA).
The IOC had suspended the IBA following long-running disputes over governance, its finances and the integrity of bouts and judging. The IOC’s “special task force” had overseen the boxing competitions at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Games. World Boxing was thus formed to ensure boxing remained an Olympic sport. However, last year the IOC made it clear that National Boxing Federations had to reach a consensus around a new international federation in order for boxing to be included on the sports programme of the LA 28.
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