IOC Won”t Change Boxing Age Limit To Let Manny Pacquaio Compete At Paris Olympics At Age 45 – News18

Lausanne, Feb 18 (AP) The International Olympic Committee is not going to change its guidelines to let boxing nice Manny Pacquaio compete on the Paris Games aged 5 years past the entry restrict.

Pacquaio, who retired in 2021, needed to field at age 45 within the Olympic event in Paris the place medal bouts can be held within the Roland Garros tennis advanced.

The IOC stated Sunday it wrote to Olympic officers in Philippines explaining the age restrict for boxers of 40 can be upheld. The IOC now oversees Olympic boxing after de-recognizing the International Boxing Association governing physique.

The age restrict for Olympic boxing was raised to 40 from 34 in 2013 — a transfer that will have let Pacquaio attempt to compete on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He selected to not on the time when he was additionally elected to be a senator in his residence nation.

It is unclear if Pacquaio would have tried to earn a spot on the Paris Olympics in one in every of two qualification tournaments that open later this month in Italy and in May in Thailand.

The Philippines Olympic physique had talked of attempting to get a so-known as “universality” entry to the Paris Summer Games. These are successfully free passes to occasions given to nations which have few athletes on the Olympics and sometimes wrestle to qualify on benefit.

However, the IOC defined Sunday that the Philippines had been too profitable to learn from the scheme.

“Universality places are not allocated to (teams) with an average of more than eight athletes in individual sports/disciplines at the last two editions of the Olympic Games,” the IOC stated. “This is the case for the Philippine Olympic Committee.” Pacquaio ended his storied profession in September 2021 at age 42 after 72 fights, profitable 12 world titles at a document eight totally different weight divisions. (AP) AM AM AM

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