US EditionEx-Olympic boxing champ Yoka takes DR Congo license but rejects Olympic switch from France
- Tony Yoka, France's 2016 Olympic boxing champion, denied switching his sporting nationality to the Democratic Republic of Congo despite obtaining a Congolese boxing license.
- Yoka expressed pride in representing the DRC in boxing and honored the country's sport minister, Didier Budimbu.
- Didier Budimbu announced that Yoka aims for Olympic gold for the DRC and plans to train elite boxers in a new academy.
- Yoka stated that the license with the DRC is to relaunch his professional career with a planned fight in the DRC at the end of the year, not to change his Olympic allegiance.
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On Tuesday 24 February, Tony Yoka, the 2016 Olympic champion in France, denied that he wanted to evolve for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the other hand, the tricolor fighter announced that he would be fighting on the spot. - "No question": boxer Tony Yoka denied that he wanted to wear the colors of the DRC (Sports).
Tony Yoka clarifies his project for the rest of his career. The French boxer denies wanting to represent the DRC at the Olympics 2028, despite ambiguous messages. He prepares a fight in Kinshasa and envisages a boxing academy.
France’s Olympic boxing champion Tony Yoka denies nationality switch claim
France’s 2016 Olympic boxing champion Tony Yoka denied on Tuesday he was switching allegiance to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country of his father’s birth, as he had suggested he was doing hours earlier.
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Ex-Olympic boxing champ Yoka takes DR Congo license but rejects Olympic switch from France
PARIS (AP) — French boxer Tony Yoka has taken a boxing license with the Democratic Republic of Congo — his father's country — and denied he has an ambition of winning another Olympic gold medal.
Olympic champion in Rio in 2016 with France, boxer Tony Yoka announced that he would now represent the Democratic Republic of Congo, his father's country of origin.
A former great hope of French boxing, Rio's gold medallist never kept the promises he had given birth. He will now fight for his father's home country. He aims at the Olympic Games in his new colours, which will force him to put his professional career on hold.
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