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VILLEPINTE, France — Gennady Golovkin believes he owes his incredible boxing career in part to his Olympic beginnings. The possibility of his sport vanishing from the Summer Games is infuriating to one of the greatest fighters of his generation. Within the next year or so, the International Olympic Committee has demanded the sport line up behind a reputable governing body that isn't the beleaguered International Boxing Association, which is still fighting an Olympic ban that seems highly unlikely to be lifted. What might be the final Olympic boxing tournament got underway Saturday in the Villepinte suburb of Paris with all the usual delights and annoyances of this idiosyncratic version of the sport.
