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Boxing kept its status as an Olympic sport for the 2024 Paris Games, but the IOC is overseeing the qualifying and medal tournaments without IBA involvement, as it did for the Tokyo Games in 2021.
The participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in the female boxing event caused controversy as they had been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The disqualifications came as consequence of the IBA stating that they failed to meet ...
The sport is good for Olympic business with broad appeal — 25 different countries won boxing medals in Tokyo, with nine taking gold — and the IOC repeatedly said its problem was with boxing ...
Boxing is suddenly in the middle of a scandal at the Paris Olympics after a pair of fighters — Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting — started competing at the Games ...
Boxing made its first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics as a men's event. Due to few competitors at the time, only North American boxers competed for this edition. [ 3 ] Since the 1908 Olympics, boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games besides the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , because Swedish law banned the martial ...
The boxing competition at Paris 2024 is taking place under International Olympic Committee rules after the IOC stripped the IBA of its status as the sport's global governing body over governance ...
Oceania's rhythmic gymnastics qualification for the Tokyo Olympics was conducted with severe breaches that resulted in change of ranking for Olympic nomination and selection. A 1.5-year-long investigation by Gymnastics Ethics Foundation found serious misconduct by qualification event's organisers, administrators and officials.
The Olympics‘ gender eligibility controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is still swirling days after Khelif’s victory over Italy’s Angela Carini in a bout that lasted less than ...