For the Paris 2024 Games, the quota of qualified weightlifters has been reduced from 196 to 120.
Chaired by the president of the International Olympic Committee (WATCH), Thomas Bach, The Olympic Summit was held that involves the main representatives of the Olympic Movement and where important resolutions were taken, such as provisionally excluding the tests of modern pentathlon, boxing Y Weightlifting for the next Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
The Executive committee, the governing body of the IOC, agreed to exclude the three specialties from the initial sports program for Los Angeles 2028 and included, among 28 proposed activities, the skateboarding, surf Y climbing. In addition, the hosts will be able to request the entry of another sport as a guest.
The IOC clarified that “a path” will be traced so that the three activities can continue in the Games if solve “the concerns” that exist about them before 2023.
According to a publication of the Spanish newspaper AS, weightlifting has long lived on the cutting edge for its problems with doping that they have forced erase entire podiums in London 2012 and Rio 2016 after sample reanalysis. The FIH (International Weightlifting Federation) was also “a nest of corruption at the highest levell ”according to the McLaren report for the World Anti-Doping Agency during the term of Tamas Ajan, president between 2000 and 2020. The reforms of its anti-doping rules presented this year did not convince the IOC either. Already for Paris 2024 the quota of athletes was reduced from 196 to 120.
He adds that boxing lives in a permanent crisis of confidence after the IOC suspended the AIBA (International Boxing Association). for corruption cases. In Rio, until 11 bouts were suspected of manipulation, according to other research by Richard McLaren.
In the case of the modern pentathlon, it is more of a problem of public disaffection.
Reaction in Ecuador
The president of the Ecuadorian Boxing Federation, Alex GonzalezOn the IOC resolution, he said: “It is a decision that came as a surprise to the AIBA family, to which our Federation belongs. In recent months work has been done intensely, to restore confidence to the IOC. We are convinced that things are going to change, because a plan drawn up to regain Olympic status is being fulfilled. AIBA is currently making profound changes in governance. The IOC itself recognizes the efforts made, and the June 2022 congress is expected to be the last stumbling block that would be needed to be able to demonstrate that the elected members of the new board of directors are made up of people who have a clean resume and who perform an honest job aimed at guaranteeing the governability of AIBA, as indicated by its new constitution ”.
“Currently the AIBA World and Continental Championships are being monitored by the IOC to see if the recommendations made are being met. The IOC will be reviewing the final progress of our organization and we hope that next year boxing will be included in the 2028 Olympic program, since it would be very detrimental to athletes around the world if it were not to participate. In any case, AIBA will continue to work so that their events are great, like the ones that have taken place lately ”, indicated the manabita González.
For its part, Luiz Zambrano, president of the Ecuadorian Federation of Weightlifting, on the exclusion of weightlifting stated: “The IWF (International Federation) will issue a statement on the subject, because it is not true that we are out for Los Angeles 2028. My criteria must go associated with the pronouncement made by the IWF, for that reason I ask very restrained to wait for that pronouncement, what I can say is that our sport is going to be part of the program of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028 ″. (D)
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