It is unfortunate that the great sport of boxing may soon be removed from the Olympic Games. However, as combat sports fans have likely read and heard in recent months, the possibility, or threat, of boxing being removed from the Olympic Games after the Paris Games is very real. Due primarily to corruption and financial irregularities, the IOC has stripped the IBA of its status as the federation for the sport.
The IOC then set up a special task force to ensure that boxing remains an event in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and this year's Paris Olympics. However, the IOC does not intend to continue supporting boxing beyond the Paris Olympics, so unless the IOC approves a new federation, boxing will not be included in the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. It is hard to imagine how terrible it would be if boxing was no longer in the Olympics. The Olympics have been a springboard for many great boxers who have won gold medals and gone on to become world champions and global stars.
If boxing doesn't become an Olympic sport, it would be an unimaginable blow to amateur sports, but Gennady Golofkin, who was appointed president of Kazakhstan's Olympic Committee in February, has vowed to do everything in his power to keep boxing in the Olympics.
GGG knows how important a solid amateur background is for any fighter.
“I was appointed president of the Olympic Committee very recently, maybe two or three months ago. [ago]”And I've become accustomed to the situation, but what I've found out so far is unacceptable in my opinion,” Golovkin told BBNews.[It is] This is unacceptable to boxers. [the] “I call on other national Olympic committees to join me and, as a boxer, I will do everything I can to consult, support, assist and influence boxing to remain an Olympic sport.”
Golovkin, who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics and retired last year, could have a real say in his new role, and fans hope he does. Can GGG use his influence to ensure boxing remains an Olympic sport? One can only hope. Golovkin supports “new technology” that will help root out fraud and human error. He believes boxing has a bright future in the Olympics if given the chance.
“I recently [amateur] “It was a tournament in Milan. It was a tournament for license qualification. I liked the way it was done,” GGG said. “I saw a lot of innovation being used to minimize the human factor: artificial intelligence, computer scoring, review. The use of these new technologies will make the competition cleaner. It will help reduce corruption in the sports world.”
Boxing for the next decade, and the next decade, and the next century – that's what we hope for, but will it really happen? We need more fighters like Gennady Golovkin to ensure boxing's survival as an Olympic sport.
If there was no boxing in the Olympics we would have no Ali, no Frazier, no Foreman, no Sugar Ray, no De La Hoya, and the list goes on and on.
