Dragon

Most bizarre story of the year. Mario Melo, the former Argentine professional light heavyweight champion who once challenged for a world title, has died after collapsing at a croissant eating contest in Pinamar. Argentina. It's possible he choked to death.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/boxing/olympics-tokyo-2020-boxing-future-gafur-rakhimov-aiba-ioc-a8618236.html

We were told Zielinski is officially the bronze medalist but the Polish Olympic Committee know nothing about it. So who knows?

After backing down over Russia and doping they can't be seen to the same again. AIBA have made a disastrous mistake here. Three possibilities left 1 Rakhimov resigns. 2 AIBA is abolished 3 Boxing is removed from Tokyo 2020.

Equatorial Guinea also disappeared sinch coffee break

India, Lebanon and Monaco delegates have disappeared.

By the way, if Kokona Hiraki qualifies for 2020 she'll be the youngest female Olympian for 50 years

We're watching a sport commit suicide...

The election is turning into a disaster. The voting machines have gone wrong. In a test they show more votes than there are countries represented in AIBA.

So the Olympic qualifying period does not start until 2019?

Latest news is that Rakhimov has lost support over the last few days but is still expected to win the election. Goodbye Olympic boxing...

Any European country with a population of less than a million people

To answer the British questions: Whitlock retired from the all-around earlier this year to concentrate on individual apparatus but it seems he may change his mind now, The other GB men, Wilson, Cunningham, Hall are good but probably not quite good enough to win all-round medal. All could finish top 6 in the world on a good day but I can't see them breaking into the top 3 The women's performance this week was disappointing but understandable. Fragapane and Tinkler are injured, the Downie sisters are only now returning after both being injured for more than a year, And there were two 17 year olds making their world debut. I think with all their best team available they should be slightly better than the Canadians who finished 4th but probably not good enough to challenge the big 3 nations.

Unfortunately today the AIBA announced they've closed 38 doping cases without punishment and did not give reasons why they did that,

And the officials are some of the worst people in sport...

So if Rakhimov is elected we have 3 possibilities on what happens next. 1 - The IOC can back down and let the AIBA carry on as usual. That will make the IOC look very weak and I don't think they can afford to look weak again so soon after their problems with Russia. 2 - They can find another governing body to run Olympic boxing. The rumour is they are talking to one of the professional boxing organizations to run a scaled down tournament in Tokyo, Maybe with about 12 professionals at each weight. 3 - They can just cancel all boxing at Tokyo. If Rakhimov loses then the AIBA still have big problems but all the big IOC decisions will wait until after 2020.

Breaking news "The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rendered its decision in the appeal filed by Mr Serik Konakbayev, Vice President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and President of the Asian Boxing Confederation, against the decision taken by the AIBA Election Committee on 1 October 2018 in which his name was not included on the list of candidates standing for election for the role of AIBA President. CAS has upheld Serik Konakbayev’s appeal. Accordingly, AIBA is ordered to include Serik Konakbayev in the list of presidential candidates standing for election at the next AIBA Congress, scheduled to take place on 2-3 November 2018 in Moscow."

Kenya Nameless - Butterfly

Gibraltar Albert Hammond - The Air That I Breathe

Nobody remembers Lew Zealand and his Boomerang Fish these days...

So are you more of a Dundee FC fan than Dundee United then?

Can I join in and "cheat" by picking Gibraltar? And maybe Kenya too?