03/04/2009 15:11
IOC to decide on women's olympic boxing
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide in August whether to include women's boxing in the 2012 London Olympics after a request by the sport's world governing body, Independent reports.
The IOC said it would consider the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) request and make a recommendation to its executive board which is due to meet in Berlin.
«We indeed received recently a request from AIBA for Women's Boxing to be considered for inclusion in 2012,» IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said.
«The programme commission will review this request and make a recommendation to the (IOC) executive board which is due to take decisions regarding the inclusion of events in August and regarding quotas in December,» she said.
The IOC has also been criticised for leaving out women's ski jumping from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.