IOC readmits former popular Olympic sport for 2028 LA Games
The 144th IOC Session was held in Athens and apart from electing Kirsty Coventry as new president, they also agreed to readmit boxing.
Boxing will be back at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games after the IOC agreed to readmit the sport after its absence at the Paris games in the summer of 2024.
The sport was eliminated in Paris due to the disqualification of the previous international federation (IBA) of the sport.
🚨 The IOC have confirmed that boxing will be included at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
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Provisional recognition granted by the IOC last month to the new World Boxing Federation cleared the way for the reinstatement of boxing, a perennial at Games since 1904 in the men’s weight class and since 2012 in the women’s weight class.
Due to problems with the IBA (International Boxing Federation), which the IOC first provisionally suspended and then permanently suspended,
National federations that are not affiliated with the WBF, such as the Spanish federation, which remains loyal to the IBA, will have to register with the new organization or they will not be send fighters to LA.
The resolution leaves one issue less for the newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry as former chief Thomas Bach stands aside with boxing’s status legalized under Olympic standards.
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