World Boxing, a new organisation that aims to secure the long-term future of the sport at the Olympic Games, was launched on Thursday by concerned administrators from around the world.
In a significant boost to previously forlorn hopes that boxing can be salvaged as an Olympic sport, the national federations of Great Britain, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand and the Philippines issued a joint statement. They stressed that World Boxing has been established to “address the IOC’s longstanding concerns over sporting integrity, governance, transparency and financial management [which] has placed boxing’s future as an Olympic sport in doubt”.
