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Pro Boxers Target 2020 Games, if Not This Year’s

Boxing’s governing body will decide Wednesday whether to let professional fighters into the Olympic ring beginning with the Rio de Janeiro Games. But the International Boxing Association will also have to answer questions about its drug-testing policies when it gathers before an International Olympic Committee executive meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

While it is unlikely that the former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko or top American fighters will compete for gold in Rio, a decision to allow professional boxers could boost the card for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. For most professionals, it is already too late to take part in a qualifying contest for the Rio Games; the last tournament is in Venezuela in July.