AIBA says that according to its new rules boxers can not appeal the decisions and that all results will stand. Conlan took to Twitter to express his disapproval of the action of sending the judges home that is of little outcome to the boxers themselves.
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Walsh described the judging as the worst he’s seen since the infamous Games of 1988 when Roy Jones jnr lost an unbelievable verdict to home favourite Park Si-Hun in Seoul.
Irish official Michael Gallagher was one of the judges in the heavyweight final. “How much did they charge you bro?”. Each five judges have a different set of criteria.
“They want all of us to be honest, do everything right, make sure our kids don’t take drugs and our kids are in good shape – we’re doing everything we can to make the sport respectable”.
In a corrected version of the statement released today, the AIBA said: “Further to the decision taken yesterday by AIBA with regard to the reassessment of the judges and referees officiating during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the AIBA vice presidents and executive board members have chose to reassign with immediate effect the current AIBA executive director to a new role within the organisation”. Judges are still training in the system’s nuances, but the change has been well received.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, poses for picture with Shakur Stevenson after Stevenson won a men’s bantamweight 56-kg quarterfinals boxing match against Mongolia’s Tsendbaatar Erdenebat at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Amateur boxing’s governing body said it had dropped some officials from the Rio Olympics after “less than a handful” of decisions not at par with expectations.
After a quiet opening week in Rio, a handful of questionable decisions threw yet another Olympic boxing tournament into turmoil with widespread condemnation of the judging and refereeing.
The move away from computer scoring to the professional, “10 point must” system has also been criticised for being too rigid and less transparent.
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