The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting. 2,52
Recognised
On 30 November 2018 the International Olympic Committee, the , gave provisional recognition. 40,52,53 In July 2021, at a meeting in Tokyo, it gave full recognition. WAKO gives the date as 20 July 2021. 40,52
Recognition means WAKO is part of the Olympic family. It does not put kickboxing in the Olympic Games. 2,52
Los Angeles says no
In August 2022 the organisers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics put kickboxing on a short list of possible new sports. In October 2023 they chose not to put it forward. 11,40
The World Games
Kickboxing does have a home at the World Games. It was an invited sport in Wrocław in 2017, and an official one in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2022, and in Chengdu, in China, in 2025, with 12 events in and . 11
It was also at the 2023 European Games in Poland, and it will be at the European Games in Istanbul in June 2027. 11,40
Para kickboxing
WAKO published rules for para kickboxing in November 2024. 49 Kickboxing GB says Great Britain won its first para kickboxing world title at the 2026 Youth World Championships. 81
The only governing body?
In March 2026 WAKO made a new rule. It calls itself the only governing body for kickboxing in the world, and its members may not take part in events it has not approved. 42
So kickboxing is a recognised sport, but not an Olympic one. In Britain it is lived out every week in leisure centres, and that is where the last chapter goes.