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Scouts in Paris 2024: ‘Buakaw’ promotes Muay Thai at the 2024 Olympic Games

France, 'Buakaw' joins in promoting Muay Thai in the 2024 Paris Games, with a lively response from foreigners, in order to achieve the goal of being included in the Olympic Games. Follow the 'Cat Looks into the Paris Games' segment. The atmosphere at the Thai boxing ring inside Club France in Paris, France, was lively. Sports fans from around the world joined in watching the ancient boxing performance and the Thai boxing dance and applauded the excellence of the Thai boxing art. Meanwhile, international sports fans were excited by the appearance of famous boxer Buakaw Banchamek who came up to show off his Thai boxing dance. The inclusion of Muay Thai in the virtual Olympic Games in 2024 is a success for the IFMA after 31 years of hard work since the federation was founded. At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Muay Thai was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as one of the sports that the IOC will consider to be included as an official event in the future. Buakaw Banchamek revealed tha t today he is a representative of Thai boxers, a representative of Thai national art that has been brought to be shown at the highest level of sports like the Olympic Games for the first time. If in the future, Thai boxing is included in the Olympic Games, it will be a true source of pride. The 2024 Olympics is a good destination that IFMA has been authorized to join the virtual Muay Thai competition show under the collaboration between IFMA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Paris to let foreigners around the world see that Muay Thai is firmly on the path to the Olympic Games. Source: Thai News Agency