Boxing should be part of the program for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles after years of dispute on how sport is executed.
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, said on Monday that the CIO Executive Committee had approved, including boxing on the 2028 program.
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He still needs a complete IOC session to rely on the decision later this week, but it is generally a formality.
The IOC organized boxing tournaments at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 and the Paris Games last year after relations with the International Boxing Association, but said that it needed a new partner in time for 2028.
Last month, the IOC recognized a new director organ, world boxing.
“I am very convinced that the session will approve of it so that all the boxers in the world then have a certainty that they can participate in the Olympic Games in the 2028 if their national federation is recognized by world boxing,” said Bach.
The IBA suspended the IBA in 2019 following long -standing disputes over governance, its finances and the integrity of the fighting and the judgment, and took the rare stage to ban it from the Olympic movement entirely in 2023, shortly after the escape of world boxing.
