The provisional recognition granted by the IOC in February to the new World Boxing Federation cleared the way for the Boxing readmissionhistorical discipline of the games, in which they participate since 1904 in the male pesos and Since 2012 in female.
Karl Stoss, president of the Olympic Program Commission, defended the convenience of introducing the boxing in the Los Angeles program by already having a approved federation that has passed the Governance tests of the IOC and that has for the moment with 88 affiliated federations of the five continents, With about 500 thousand recorded fighters.
Due to the problems with the IBA, to which the IOC first suspended provisionally and then definitively, the Olympic organism itself had to Organize the pre -Olympic and Olympic tournaments of Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. But he warned that he would not repeat that role in Los Angeles 2028 and that there should be a new federation in charge. Meanwhile, it excluded the boxing of the program.
The National Federations that They are not attached to World Boxingcase of the Spanish, who remains faithful to the IBA, will have to register in the new organization or cannot participate in Los Angeles.
With the decision made on Thursday, the outgoing president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, leaves one of the headaches of his mandate well on track. His successor comes to the position with the status of the regularized boxing in Olympic terms.
The president of World Boxing, Boris van der Vortst, present in the room during the vote of the IOC, dedicated to its members a shadow as a gesture of thanks.