Boxing fans can thank Usbekistan.
After a long period of uncertainty, boxing is on the right track to include the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in Los Angeles. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, said on Monday, the CEO, including sport in the 2028 program.
The full IOC meeting of around 100 members will have to vote on the decision later this week at a meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece, but this is usually a formality. The session that ends on Friday will also include the choice of a successor to Bach, whose 12-year term of office comes to an end in June.
However, the topic of Olympics Sport remains to be guaranteed on Monday.
The IOC had a period of this IOC International Boxing Assn.which was banned from the Olympic movement in June 2023 due to financial and integrative concerns. The IOC ran at the last two Olympic Games in Paris and Tokyo boxing, but did not want to do this further.
Input World boxingA corporation based in Switzerland, which was founded in 2023 by an international collection of boxing officers, which included many former IBA members.
The key to the world box that won the IOC's trust was The recording of UzbekistanThe land -distorted Central Asian country of 36 million people whose boxers won five of the 13 gold medals at the Olympic Games in Paris. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Guatemala and Laos switched to World Boxing in November and increased the membership of the corporation to 55.
In a statement at the time, World Boxing said: “The addition of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, which is two of the world's leading boxing nations, is an important coup for world boxing.”
World boxing president Boris van der Vorst told him Associated Press That the countries “realize that it is the only way to keep their boxers' Olympic dreams alive”.
Only seven months earlier, the IOC had issued a warning that boxing was in danger of being dropped.
“Due to the universality and the high social inclusiveness of boxing, the IOC would like to continue in the program of the Olympic Games,” said the IOC in April. “Unfortunately, for the La 2028 Olympic Games, this is far from the fact that the IOC is unable to organize another Olympic boxing tournament due to Governance reasons.
“In order to continue to box the Olympic program, the IOC needs a recognized and reliable international federation as a partner as with all other Olympic sports.”
This federation becomes officially a world boxing, depending on the upcoming coordination of the full IOC meeting.
Bach now ends a turbulent but ultimately successful term as IOC President. Seven candidates compete for him, including the Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe from Great Britain – who are viewed by many as the most qualified candidate – as well as the Zimbabwischer swimmer and politician Kirsty Coventry.
Others who want to become president are Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisach (the son of former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch), Prince Feisal Al Hussein of Jordan and the presidents of several Olympic sports bodies: Johan Eliasch from skiing, David Lappartient and Morinari Watanabe from gymnastics.
The Associated Press has contributed to this story.