IOC board puts boxing back on the Olympic program for LA in 2028
COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — Boxing is set to be on the program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after years of disputes over how the sport is run. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Monday the executive board he chairs approved including boxing on the 2028 program. “This is a very significant and important decision for Olympic boxing and takes the sport one step closer to being restored to the Olympic program,” World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst said in a statement Monday. “I have no doubt it will be very positively received by everyone connected with boxing, at every level throughout the world, who understands the critical importance to the future of the sport of boxing continuing to remain a part of the Olympic movement.” American and British boxing officials were among World Boxing’s founders in 2023, and the breakaway body has since added countries with key influence in Olympic circles, including India and, last week, China. “The ball is in the court of the Russian Olympic Committee,” Bach said Monday, though he added “on the working level the contacts have always been maintained.” The Russian Olympic body was cut off nearly 18 months ago from receiving a share of revenue from Olympic Games for acts that “violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine,” the IOC said in 2023.
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