Picson: Abap part of group looking to save boxing’s Olympic stint

  Counting on the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) "soft heart for athletes", a group composed of 25 countries is working to save boxing's spot in the Summer Games calendar, a mission whose urgency has peaked with the possibility of the sport being scrapped from Paris 2024. The Common Cause Alliance (CCA), fronted by Dutch boxing federation's Boris van der Vorst, includes the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (Abap). "The CCA's motto is 'Keep Boxing Olympic,'" Abap president Ed Picson told the Inquirer on Saturday, after the IOC on raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying the sport's Russian-led world body...

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