中华时报（赵雪湄）拳击有望重返奥运舞台。国际奥委会（IOC）执行委员会（EB）17日（周一）在希腊科斯塔纳瓦里诺举行会议，正式建议将拳击纳入2028年洛杉矶奥运会正式项目。该提案将提交明天开幕的第144届国际奥委会全会进行表决。
此前，国际奥委会执行委员会已于今年2月临时承认*世界拳击（World Boxing）*为该项目在奥林匹克大家庭中的新国际单项体育联合会。国际奥委会主席托马斯·巴赫表示，他对全会通过该提案充满信心，并指出：“这样一来，全世界的拳击运动员就可以确定，如果他们所在的国家拳击协会得到世界拳击的承认，他们就有资格参加洛杉矶2028年奥运会。”
在2023年，前拳击项目管理机构——国际拳击协会（IBA）因治理和财务等问题未能按IOC要求进行改革，被国际奥委会正式除名。自此，拳击一度被排除在洛杉矶奥运会项目之外。国际奥委会明确表示，拳击能否回归奥运，取决于是否有一个新的全球管理机构获得承认。
世界拳击组织成立于2023年，在巴黎奥运会结束时，其成员国仅有37个。但截至目前，该组织已拥有84个国家协会成员。其官方网站称：“世界拳击由全球多个国家协会中志同道合的成员共同创立，旨在回应原有拳击国际管理机构长期存在的治理、公正、透明度和财务问题，这些问题曾令拳击的奥运前景岌岌可危。世界拳击致力于以诚信、诚实和卓越为基础，为奥林匹克拳击提供新的选择。”
在与IBA决裂后，东京2020奥运会和巴黎奥运会的拳击比赛均由国际奥委会直接组织管理。
对于IOC执行委员会的最新决定，世界拳击主席鲍里斯·范德沃斯特表示：“这是奥运拳击发展的重要一步，标志着该项目距离全面回归奥运会又近了一步。我相信，这一决定将会在全球拳击界各个层面得到积极回应，大家都深知拳击留在奥运大家庭对本项目未来发展的关键意义。”
他补充道：“我谨代表世界拳击，感谢国际奥委会执行委员会对我们组织的信任。我们也希望即将召开的国际奥委会全会能够做出积极决定。世界拳击始终清楚，参与奥运会是荣誉而非权利。如果拳击成功回归洛杉矶2028奥运会，世界拳击将坚定履行作为可靠合作伙伴的承诺，恪守并践行《奥林匹克宪章》的核心价值观。”
（By AIPS – May Zhao)COSTA NAVARINO, March 17, 2025 – Boxing’s inclusion on the programme of the the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles is all but confirmed after the IOC Executive Board made the recommendation at its meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece on Monday.
The 144th IOC Session, which opens tomorrow, will now vote on the Executive Board’s proposal.
This comes a few weeks after the board provisionally recognised World Boxing (WB) as the International Federation (IF) within the Olympic Movement governing the sport of boxing at world level.
“After the provisional recognition of World Boxing in February we were in the position to take this decision so that this recommendation has to go to the session,” IOC President Thomas Bach told a press conference.
“I am very confident that the session will approve it so that all the boxers of the world then have certainty that they can participate in the Olympic Games LA 2028 if their national federation is recognised by World Boxing.”
Following the expulsion the International Boxing Association (IBA) from the Olympic Movement, the sport was originally left off the LA 2028 programme, with the IOC insisting that its return would be dependent on the recognition of a new global governing body.
The IBA was expelled in 2023 over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance. World Boxing, which was launched in 2023, had only 37 members at the conclusion of the Paris Olympics but now boats 84 national federations.
The World Boxing website states: “It was established by a group of like-minded individuals from a number of National Federations across the world in response to the persistent issues surrounding Olympic-style boxing’s international governing body, whose failure to address the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) longstanding concerns over sporting integrity, governance, transparency and financial management placed boxing’s future as an Olympic sport in doubt.
“World Boxing offers an alternative to this and was founded on the principles of integrity, honesty and excellence.”
While at loggerheads with the IBA, the IOC organised the boxing competitions at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and in Paris.
Reacting to today’s decision by the IOC EB, the president of World Boxing, Boris van der Vorst, said: “This is a very significant and important decision for Olympic boxing and takes the sport one step closer to being restored to the Olympic programme.
“I have no doubt it will be very positively received by everyone connected with boxing, at every level throughout the world, who understands the critical importance to the future of the sport of boxing continuing to remain a part of the Olympic movement.
“On behalf of everyone at World Boxing I would like to thank the EB of the IOC for the trust they have placed in our organisation and we hope for a positive outcome when the IOC Session meets this week.
“World Boxing understands that being part of the Olympic Games is a privilege and not a right and I assure the IOC that if boxing is restored to the programme for LA28, that World Boxing is completely committed to being a trustworthy and reliable partner that will adhere to and uphold the values of the Olympic Charter.”