LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Former world champion Gennady Golovkin is taking a leading role in World Boxing, the group aiming to keep the sport on the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

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ASTANA – Gennadiy Golovkin, the president of Kazakhstan’s National Olympic Committee, 2004 Olympic silver medallist and two-time middleweight world champion, has been appointed chair of a new Olympic Commission by World Boxing, reported its press service on Sept. 26.

Former world champion Gennady Golovkin is taking a leading role in World Boxing, the group aiming to keep the sport on the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. World Boxing said on Thursday that Golovkin would chair an “Olympic commission” tasked with persuading the International Olympic Committee that the breakaway organization founded last year is fit to run the competitions in Los Angeles.

Former middleweight world champion Gennadiy Golovkin has officially joined World Boxing’s push to keep the sport in the Olympics for 2028 in Los Angeles, as he has been named to chair an “Olympic commision” with World Boxing,