Olympic boxing champion Tony Yoga announced Monday evening that he is changing his sporting nationality. The 33-year-old professional boxer, who won the 2016 Rio Olympics with France, posted a photo of his new license, bearing the colors of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on his X account.
Tony Yoga said he was "proud to be able to showcase the DRC to the world" .
With this announcement, which comes two years before the Los Angeles Olympic Games scheduled for 2028, he displays the desire to defend the colors of his father's country of origin and to win gold for the East African nation.
The Congolese capital, Kinshasa, hosted the historic fight between Americans Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for the world heavyweight championship in 1974. At that time, Kinshasa was still called "Zaire". The fight was nicknamed the Rumble in the Jungle .
