MANILA, Feb. 19 -- Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao won't be showcasing his legendary ring savvy to the Paris Olympics primarily because the former eight-division world professional champion is overaged.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in response to a letter from the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) late last year appealing for the former senator's stint in Paris, stressed on the 40-year-old age limit for athletes participating in the Olympics.

Pacquiao is already 45 years old.

In the same breath, had Pacquiao met the age regulation, his possible qualification for the Olympics is to go through qualifiers, one of them last year's Asian Games where Eumir Felix Marcial earned a light heavyweight clinching silver in Hangzhou.

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