Section · 5 pieces
The Federations
Olympic recognition, the IBA's derecognition, World Boxing's route to LA 2028, and the IJF's changing rulebook.
Lead piece
Boxing Lost Its Federation and Nearly Its Place
The IOC stripped the IBA of its recognition in June 2023. What follows is the governance trail that made it inevitable, and the new body trying to buy boxing back into Los Angeles.
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Karate Was in at Tokyo and Gone for Paris, and the Reason Is Structural
One Olympic cycle, then out: the World Karate Federation's brief inclusion tells you more about how the IOC allocates slots than about the sport itself.
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World Taekwondo's Electronic Scoring Vest Changed What the Sport Rewards
The sensor changed the sport before the rulebook caught up.
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The IJF Has Rewritten Its Own Rulebook Four Times Since 2010
Four rounds of amendments in fifteen years have quietly remade the sport's competitive vocabulary.
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United World Wrestling's Doping Cases as a Document Trail
UWW's published anti-doping decisions — the volume, the nationalities, and the sanctions applied — read as a record of how a federation enforces its own rules, using UWW's own decision database with case dates and outcomes attributed.