The International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected the request made by the 45-year-old Filipino boxer, who retired in 2021, last October. A rule sets the age limit for Olympic boxers at 40 years.
The candidacy of the Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao to the Paris Olympic Games, which will run from July 26 to August 11, was rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced the president of Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), Abraham Tolentino.
Last October Manila sent a “special request” to the IOC for Pacquiao, 45, tos, winner of numerous world titles in six different weight classes, could put on the gloves again despite being retired and participating in the Games, although a rule sets the age limit for Olympic boxers at 40 years.
However, today Tolentino declared that the petition had been rejected, and that the IOC He had preferred to stick to his “rules.”
He P.O.C. I hoped to grant Pacquiao a “universal place”, granted to athletes from countries that find it difficult to access the Olympic Games through the normal classification channels.
He IOC declared that there are nine of those places for the boxing of the Paris Olympics, five in the female category and four in the male category.
“It could have achieved the podium or been the country’s first gold medal,” in Olympic boxing, lamented Tolentino, who added that however they had to “follow the rules established by the IOC”.
Pacquiao He retired professionally from boxing in 2021 to try in vain to be elected president of the Philippines.
Last October, the champion, who had never participated in a Games, had said that he was not “too old” to face younger boxers, declaring that he felt like he was “30 or 28 years old.”
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