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Speaking as a football from I really hope we don't object to the request and I hope both games are postponed until more appropriate times

Or Dublin, which has a US customs and border immigration pre clearance

And back to the virus, the Americas qualifier in Argentina is postponed https://boxing.athlete365.org/boxing-road-to-tokyo-americas-qualifying-event-in-buenos-aires-suspended/

I'm all ears if you actually want to provide any details...

Winners of todays quotas (the final quotas to be awarded) Mens 51kg Men's 57kg Men's 63kg Men's 69kg Men's 75kg Men's 81kg Women's 51kg

"The UCI confirmed that Team Ireland has qualified a quota in each of the Men’s and Women’s Madison and Men’s and Women’s Omnium events. The Olympic Federation of Ireland and Cycling Ireland formally accepted the slots this morning. " Press Release Great news for

We now know all the final qualification bouts. Winner of these will earn a quota: Mens 51kg v v Men's 57kg v v Men's 63kg v v Men's 69kg v Men's 75kg v Men's 81kg v Women's 51kg v v

We're also relatively good at lightweight rowing too. Kings of the european little people! meanwhile Carly McNaul has replaced Ceire Smith in the women's 51kg flyweight event

Yeah there’s been a few Nevins on the scene With an OK draw I’d expect Nevin and Walker to qualify. Harrington and O’Rourke on the women side others might need a bit of luck

FWIW have won 15 Olympic medals in men's boxing and all but 4 of them have been 60kg and lower! 48kg - 2 51kg - 2 52kg - 1 54kg - 3 56kg - 1 60kg - 2 67kg - 1 67kg - 1 75kg - 1 81kg - 1 And here's our team for the European qualifiers Men 52kg – Flyweight – Brendan Irvine 57kg – Featherweight – Kurt Walker 63kg – Light-welterweight – George Bates 69kg – Welterweight – Aidan Walsh 75kg – Middleweight – Michael Nevin 81kg – Light-heavyweight – Emmett Brennan 91kg – Heavyweight – Kiril Afanasev 91+kg – Super-heavyweight – Dean Gardiner Women 51kg – Flyweight- Ceire Smith 57kg – Featherweight – Michaela Walsh 60kg – Lightweight – Kellie Harrington 69kg – Welterweight – Christina Desmond 75kg – Middleweight – Aoife O’Rourke

And the man who's done it has won both his fights inside the distance. Today was in the first round against a former world medalist! Pretty incredible at this level

We now know 24 of the 26 quotas in women's boxing 51kg - last two are v and v 57kg 60kg 69kg 75kg

Quotas so far: 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 5 other countries could join them. India still has a chance of 4 more. New Zealand is the only country left who can't add to their current total

Of all sports, boxing is the one that is least suitable for just putting people in for the sake of it. It would do the Olympics no good to see some outstanding Kazakh super heavy literally give brain damage to someone who isn't good enough to qualify

Forgot to update the last few from yesterday! Anyway, after the first session today here's the countries with the most fighters still involved 13 - 11 - 10 - have 7 left but all 5 in the women's section

UCI have changed the rankings for men's madison. Ireland now above Honk Kong and into the last qualifying spot They haven't changed the women's rankings

also have all 13 boxers left Today should see some countries knocked out

Huge shock in the light heavyweight earlier with world silver medalist from Ruzmetov losing a split decision to Aokuso of

That's the point. *Their* sums weren't wrong. They used the points that the UCI told them each team had. So it was the UCI's error, not Ireland's or Ukraine's The South China Morning Post are only reporting on the numbers. There's been nothing official from the UCI

In the men's competition and still have all 8 but they're down to 3 and 4 in the women's events has 6 men and 4 women left In their only meetings so far, baet at mens lightweight while beat at women's feather

BTW at this stage we still have 26 nations in the qualifiers. and still have boxers in all 13 weight categories. are down to one each Of the Oceania countries; 12 - 5 - 4 - 2 -

The Tajikistan boxer at light heavy also fights for a place in the Olympics but he's up against the world champion from Kazakhstan Coincidentally, 2 fighters at heavy and 5 at super heavy only have to win one match to qualify (and quite a few in the women's events too)

Presume they’re waiting on official word from UCI The changes are even more stark in the women’s madison so regardless of the Irish involvement, it will need explaining

The awarding of points was known. They just awarded them more than in previous years, and retrospectively changed the results for previous years too. As I said above, Last week Ukraine were ranked ahead of HK, then finished ahead of them at the World Championships and are now ranked below them The *Only* explanation for this is that the points for previous races were changed.

Have any other rankings changed? Pretty incredible that Hong Kong is the beneficiary in both madison events with Ireland and Ukraine missing out If you look at the women's madison event in Berlin, Ukraine finished 12th, Switzerland finished 13th and HK in 14th Yet in the UCI ranks, HK move up 3 places leaping above Ukraine and Switzerland This is crazy (and I can see it getting messy too)