2023-10-13 13:57:08
The 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will validate next week the inclusion in the program of the Los Angeles Games 2028 of the five sports proposed by the organizing committee (baseball, cricket, lacrosse –team sport whose objective is to score a goal in a goal, using a stick that has a net.squash and American football – in the flag mode, where there are no tackles-), after the organization’s Executive gave approval to the initiative, as announced this Friday by the president Thomas Bach.
Of the other three sports pending a decision for 2028, the weightlifting, modern pentathlon and boxing, The first two will be included and the case of the third will continue to be studied. Regarding the Paris 2024 program, the ‘breaking’.
The German leader also indicated that there were 16 proposals for new disciplines for that edition (sports events already admitted) and that the only one that has been accepted is that of sprint beach rowing, which will involve the elimination of the light double scull.
In addition to recommending the admission of the five new sports, “which are in line” with the sporting tradition and culture of the organizing country, Bach explained that they are in favor of the continuity of the modern pentathlon after the change from the equestrian jumping test to the running obstacle races.
The admission of weightlifting, which was in doubt due to irregularities in its management, will also be recommended to the Session. The decision of the International Federation of delegating anti-doping tests to the International Testing Agency (ITA) and sanctions to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS) has been decisive, said the president.
The third sport pending a decision, the boxing, will remain under study. Your federation (OTHER) It is suspended, also due to multiple deficiencies, and Bach recalled that there is no other organization that has acquired that recognition. “We want boxing in the program, we have no problems with boxing, we have a huge problem with your federation,” he told the president.
Support for Russian athletes
Bach He also defended the participation of Russian athletes in international competitions, despite the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee decreed this Thursday.
“We do not sanction athletes for the decisions of their managers or their governments,” said the German leader at the same press conference in Bombay (India), where the Olympic body holds various meetings. “We protect athletes and their rights.”
The IOC executive has opted for the suspension of Russian Committee for the unilateral decision adopted on October 5 to include among its members sports organizations that are under the authority of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee.
Russian and Belarusian athletes are already competing as neutrals, a condition imposed by the IOC for their readmission to international competitions after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, with Belarus as an allied country. But there is still no official decision on the admission of these athletes to the Paris Games next summer.
Limit of countries to the winter Olympics
The climate crisis will have a “dramatic effect” on the Winter Games and the COI It is estimated that by 2040 there will only be ten countries in a position to organize the program’s snow competitions, also explained the president of the organization, Thomas Bach.
For sustainability reasons, the COI It only grants the venue of the White Games to countries that have all the facilities available or that can solve their shortcomings with removable facilities. Currently only 15 meet these conditions.
To address the issue, the IOC executive will propose to the Assembly which opens this Saturday that grants lthe headquarters of 2030 and 2034to then focus on the problem of the following editions, revealed the Olympic leader.
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