Surfing, sport climbing and skate, the sports that debuted on the Olympic program in Tokyo 2020, were included in the discipline list for the Los Angeles 2028 Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
But powerlifting, boxing and the modern pentathlon missed the cutoff of the initial 28 sports and must meet certain criteria by 2023 to be included, IOC President Thomas Bach said in an online press conference at end of a meeting of the entity’s executive board.
An IOC session in February will approve the initial program. The three sports left out will be re-included in the committee session in 2023.
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Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing are part of the program for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
For weightlifting and boxing, their exclusion is a major blow, as international federations grapple with governance, finance and corruption issues and the IOC has repeatedly announced that if reforms are not carried out they risk being left out of the program. Olympic.
Both will need to show improvement in terms of financial transparency and governance to return to the Olympics.
The modern pentathlon, part of the Games for more than a century, should provide plans to replace horses in competition after a scandal during the Tokyo Games where a trainer hit an animal.
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