Three standard Olympic sports activities have been dropped from the preliminary lineup within the 2028 Los Angeles Summer season Olympics due to doping scandals and governance points. Boxing, weightlifting and the fashionable pentathlon will probably not happen in these Video games, the IOC has introduced.

Olympics have been a longstanding place to begin for a lot of boxers, most notably Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) on the 1960 Rome Summer season Video games.

Cassius Clay at 1960 Rome Olympics
The winners of the 1960 Olympic medals for gentle heavyweight boxing on the winners' podium at Rome: Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) (C), gold; Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland (R), silver; and Giulio Saraudi (Italy) and Anthony Madigan (Australia), joint bronze. Picture by Central Press/Getty Photographs

The Worldwide Olympic Committee launched its record of potential sports activities for the 2028 Video games, and acknowledged that boxing, weightlifting and pentathlon may nonetheless make the 2028 lineup pending an additional analysis of these sports activities. A call by the IOC can be made on the LA28 Preliminary Sports activities Programme, which can be used to probably add much more sports activities for the Video games.

There is a course of to finalize disciplines inside every sport to supply "certainty to athletes, Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs), worldwide federations and the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Video games (OCOG).

Worldwide federations have till the 2023 summit to show to the IOC they've addressed the next:

  • They've efficiently addressed ongoing considerations round its governance, monetary transparency and sustainability, and the integrity of its refereeing and judging processes.
  • The IWF and its future management should display its transition in direction of compliance and an efficient change of tradition. Moreover, they need to efficiently tackle the historic incidence of doping within the sport and make sure the integrity, robustness and full independence of its anti-doping program.