Moroccan boxing suffered a setback at the “Paris 2024” Olympics, after Morocco participated with only 3 female boxers (Yasmine Mottaki, Widad Bartal and Khadija Al-Mardi) in the absence of male boxers, all of whom failed to qualify for the current version of the Olympics held in the French capital Paris.
The eliminations of the three boxers continued with the start of the boxing competitions at the Olympic Games, which caused Moroccan boxing to leave the Paris Olympics empty-handed, which is a consequence of what is happening within the Royal Moroccan Boxing Federation.
Jawad Belhaj has been the president of the Boxing University since 2002 and has spent 22 years at the helm of the university. Failure has been the main theme of Moroccan boxing’s records at previous Olympics, with the exception of Mohamed Rabiei’s bronze medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
During five Olympic participations in the years 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020 and 2024, Mohamed Rabiei’s bronze medal was the only medal for Moroccan boxing at the Olympics, which led to criticism of the mismanagement of this university, demanding the need for a radical reform. change in it.
Some activists have called for firm intervention to link responsibility with accountability, in addition to opening a thorough investigation into the reasons for the successive failures of Moroccan boxing at the Olympic Games, the last of which occurred in Paris, when the female element was absent and the female element was content to participate only.
