{"id":837278,"date":"2026-07-31T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837278\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:57:09","slug":"world-boxing-lifts-restrictions-on-russian-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837278\/","title":{"rendered":"World Boxing lifts restrictions on Russian athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">World Boxing has lifted sanctions on Russian athletes, allowing them to compete under the country\u2019s flag and with its national anthem played, the sport\u2019s Olympic-recognised governing body announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Banned from global sport following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been gradually reinstated in certain sports under neutral status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In early July, the IOC announced it was lifting the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee and easing some of the restrictions imposed on Russian athletes, who will now be eligible to attempt to qualify for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2RPIHVIIVUAS2T35SKZHALULUM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"452\"\/>am800-sports-olympic-flag-1.11105570 The Olympic flag<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe ExCo (executive committee) accepted that Russian athletes would now take part in World Boxing competitions like boxers from any other national federation,\u201d said World Boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, World Boxing will strictly monitor the behaviour of Russian delegations during events as well as compliance with anti-doping protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In April, World Boxing had already said it would allow Russian fighters to compete under a neutral banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Founded in 2023 by Kazakhstan\u2019s Gennady Golovkin, World Boxing is currently recognised by the IOC as the global governing body for the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cRussian boxing is returning to the international stage,\u201d Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev said in a message posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWorld Boxing has authorised our athletes &#8212; across all age categories &#8212; to compete in all international events with the national flag and anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Boxing has lifted sanctions on Russian athletes, allowing them to compete under the country\u2019s flag and with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[712,703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-837278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-apple-news","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}