TWO OF THE three boxing judges involved in the controversial decision against Ireland’s world champion Michael Conlan were still at the Rio Olympics on Wednesday, official records show.
Earlier in the day amateur boxing’s world governing body said it had sent home an undisclosed number of officials after “less than a handful of decisions not at the level expected”.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) acted after several aggrieved boxers and their trainers accused the organisation of either corruption or overseeing what one highly respected coach called some “crazy” judging decisions in Brazil.
Conlan launched a foul-mouthed tirade after his unanimous points decision defeat on Tuesday to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin, saying he had been “robbed of my Olympic dream”, and most boxing experts agreed he appeared to comfortably win the fight.
The judges in that contentious bout were Jones Kennedy Silva Do Rosario, Udeni Talik Bandara Kiridena and Mariusz Gorny.
Many had assumed they would be the ones to be dropped but the first two were back in action at the Olympics on Wednesday.
Conlan tweeted in reaction to the AIBA move: “Wow this says a lot about AIBA, sending judges home who ruin dreams, what happens to the people whose dream were ruined?”
AIBA strongly denies the accusations.
Great to see Robbie in form, in a decent league pre Euros… But let’s hope trap is paying attention to the fine performances of ciaran Clarke too!
Ciaran Clark has to go to the Euros. He will be important in the WC 2014 qualifiers and a good player for us for years to come hopefully. His goal in the cup a few weeks ago was class.
Keane is getting some great confidence boosters here. Hopefully this can continue to the summer. But defender and goalkeeper need to up the game. (oshea and given).
Pilkington of Norwich is class and should be in traps squad aswell
Duffer answered rumours of being sold by Fulham
Keane is on fire two absolutely top drawer goals and was Scholes like playing in front of mid field.
I think an important question to ask is why Robbie Keane joined LA Galaxy if he still can play at a decent level if not the premiere league then surely the championship is better quality then the MLS…