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As an example of how difficult judging is. Theres 5 judges here and not one of them are the same for all 3 rounds. I hope they ditch 10-9 as soon as possible

99% of the times Irish boxers lose, Irish fans claim a robbery too. It’s nearly always nonsense. Of course there have been robberies, and because of that others latch on. The worst I ever seen was Anthony Joshua over the Cuban in 2012 for example. It’s the same as football fans blaming the ref every time they lose though. The odd time they’re right, they’re mostly wrong

That is your opinion and frankly, it’s nonsense.

Refs don’t give any scores. Judges do. It’s a very hard sport to judge, and generally they do a good job. The majority of people watching on TV have no idea what they’re looking at. It most certainly isn’t random. 10 points for winning a round take all the drama out of most 3rd rounds. That’s the biggest issue. That and a warning being too big of a punishment. Maybe if some countries have the balls to leave the IBA the sport can revert back to point per blow scoring and stop trying to compete with the pro ranks. 99% of “robbery” calls are just sore losers whinging IMO

All this mornings results are on the results tab here

So far this morning in women's 66kg beat beat beat beat beat beat v in last 16 (and so on down the line)

Just seen a woman win a round 10-9 on one judge's scorecard despite receiving a standing count...

They absolutely will! Thanks for all these so far

Streaming starts tomorrow morning on Olympics.com Full schedule

Men’s 71kg - Wanderson de Oliveira defeats Aidan Walsh on points you can see the fight here as an Irish journalist streamed it on twitter

Not to put a dampener on the story but he ran the qualifying standard so his rankings chase wasn’t needed

EDIT: Never mind. Looking at the wrong schedule here!

The IABA (Irish boxing federation) has said that Olympics.com will be providing streaming from march 8th Good news

There’s no real “invitation” involved with pro boxing. It’s all money driven. She fought for world titles in summer 2023 and lost. Theres no rules (now) about pros entering the Olympics and there’s many active “pros” who have qualified and are attempting to qualify for the Olympics (though some national federations are against it) Her opponent in the next round is Donjeta Sadiku who has won medals at world and European level but hasn’t had any wins against top class opponents.

Every boxer loser calls it a robbery

One of the Irish fighter’s mother is streaming some of the fights on her (private) Facebook page! Anyway Kelyn Cassidy won his 81kg bout against his opponent from

And plenty of quotas will be decided before then too…

Yes, but as per earlier in the thread a lot of federations are posting their results on social media as they happen.

Presume they put the 1500m on last thinking Laura Muir would run it

Brilliant night of racing in the middle distances. Loved that they weren’t time trial processions

Session two results are up

I think it might have been Rio. Possibly even London? Either way they had love score (per round) on the website Last time out they had streaming, but no scores

BTW the tournament is “box until qualification”. So with those weights (most) where there are 4 quotas, there will be no semi finals

And with the rankings being based on best 2 of 3 Nations Cup results, we will have most quotas mathematically confirmed after Hong Kong

12 nations are already qualified so they're not included. In total 19 boats qualify for the games.