IOC unsure if boxing, weightlifting will be in 2024 Summer Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are just a few months away, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also focused on getting its lineup of sports ready for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Specifically, the IOC is considering whether or not boxing and weightlifting will remain in the games.

"We are quite concerned because in these two federations there are problems of good governance and that is why we are currently monitoring them very closely," Bach told French sports daily L'Equipe, via ESPN. "We will make a decision as soon as possible in the interest of the athletes."

Both boxing and weightlifting have been contested in every Summer Olympics since 1920. Women began competing in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and boxing opened its doors to women at the 2012 London Olympics. 

In September, an investigation found that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) "selected referees and judges to ensure that bouts could be manipulated" in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The investigation found that the 2012 Games were likely affected, as well.

"This informal structure allowed complicit and compliant referees and judges ... to be assigned to specific bouts to ensure the manipulation of outcomes," investigator Richard McLaren alleged in his findings.

None of the referees or judges from 2016 participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the boxing tournaments were ran directly by the IOC instead of the AIBA.

In February 2021, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was warned for a second time by the IOC that weightlifting was in danger of being dropped from the Olympic program due to a failure to improve anti-doping efforts.