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Boxing Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024


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21 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So there will be Top 8 seeds in every weight category.

 

Continental Champions + Runners up of Asia, Europe, Pan America

This is such a stupid decision. Why are they deciding the seeding only on the basis of a single tournament? And how is a European or Asian champion almost the same as an Australian or African champion? 

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4 minutes ago, Somebodyyouknow said:

This is such a stupid decision. Why are they deciding the seeding only on the basis of a single tournament? And how is a European or Asian champion almost the same as an Australian or African champion? 

Because they don’t really have much option once they decide to have seeds. The world championships were missed by a lot of countries. As were Euro champs. And once they established the pacific qualifying route, they had to acknowledge it

 

Boxing seeding has always been rubbish and some fighters have always had easier routes to a medal than others. Every non-seed will want to be on the side of the Aussies now but there’s still so much luck involved with the draw

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51 minutes ago, dodge said:

Because they don’t really have much option once they decide to have seeds. The world championships were missed by a lot of countries. As were Euro champs. And once they established the pacific qualifying route, they had to acknowledge it

 

Boxing seeding has always been rubbish and some fighters have always had easier routes to a medal than others. Every non-seed will want to be on the side of the Aussies now but there’s still so much luck involved with the draw

Give seeds through the world rankings. As you pointed out, there is a little bit of a mess in some categories due to countries missing important championships, but overall it still seems like the best approach.

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26 minutes ago, Somebodyyouknow said:

Give seeds through the world rankings. As you pointed out, there is a little bit of a mess in some categories due to countries missing important championships, but overall it still seems like the best approach.

World Rankings cannot be used because boxing at Olympics is run by IOC so IBA rankings mean nothing. Moreover IBA tournaments violated the laws which didn't allow Russian and Belarussian flag to be used. Allowing them along with a number of transparency and governing issues made the tournaments redundant

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