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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.
This Olympics, the IOC has consistently indicated that when it comes to boxing it relies on the athlete’s passport, rather than any sort of genetic, hormonal or chromosome test, to determine ...
The Olympics, however, have broader eligibility rules. “I think we all have a responsibility to dial down this and not turn it into some kind of witch hunt,” International Olympic Committee ...
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 tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro. [1] However, boxing at the games was overshadowed with controversy after there were doubts raised that results in certain bouts had been manipulated. These concerns were upheld in a report published in 2021.
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 ...
The boxing tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 24 July to 8 August 2021 at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. [1] Thirteen events were staged, the same number as in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
As such, the IBA isn’t in charge of the Olympic boxing competition. That job has fallen on the IOC, which, perhaps clouded by its feud with the IBA, is skeptical of the administration.