A special team of the IOC = International Olympic Committee, which mainly conducts boxing for the Tokyo Olympics, has canceled the world final qualifying for the Tokyo Games scheduled for June in Paris due to the spread of the new coronavirus. , Announced that it has decided to change the selection method.
The IOC's special team announced on the 15th that it has decided to change the selection method in the future due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
According to this, the world final qualifying scheduled in Paris in June was canceled, and as a new selection method, the 53 qualifying slots scheduled to be decided in this final qualifying will be set in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. It will be evenly distributed to all classes in Oceania and all four regions of Europe.
On top of that, among the players who have not won the quota in each region / class, the player with the highest ranking in the latest world ranking can get the quota.
The special team will announce these new selection methods after they are officially approved by the IOC's board of directors scheduled for February.
A total of five Japanese men and women are scheduled to participate in this final qualifying round, and the Japan Boxing Federation is discussing how to respond.