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. “For me, personally, as well as for all the sports world, it is important to preserve boxing as an Olympic sport, and this will be my top priority," Golovkin said in a statement.