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Congratulations Katie Taylor

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    #62
    Grid.
    Registered Users, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Well done Katie, great achievement!!;)


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    #63
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    J-Fit wrote: »
    She's a genetically gifted athlete that happened to be born on this island.
    Yeah, no sour grapes at all. You need a hell of a lot more than "good genetics" to become world champion.

    Talk about damning with faint praise.


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    #64
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    J-Fit wrote: »
    That says nothing.
    Sure, let us know how your meeting with the most powerful man on earth goes.


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    #65
    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭J-Fit


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Yeah, no sour grapes at all. You need a hell of a lot more than "good genetics" to become world champion.

    Talk about damning with faint praise.

    Rubbish. Sour grapes implies jealousy. No way I'm jealous of her, really. These are just my opinions and because you don't like them, you are getting just a little offended. Why would I have sour grapes towards Katie Taylor but nor Padraig Harrington or Sonya O'Sullivan?


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    #66
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    J-Fit wrote: »
    No way I'm jealous of her, really.
    Sour grapes doesn't imply jealousy. Freudian slip on your part? I think so.


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    #67
    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭J-Fit


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Sour grapes doesn't imply jealousy. Freudian slip on your part? I think so.

    Oh my God. Thanks for the lesson. Lets just agree to disagree on this one, no matter the semantics.


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    #68
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Naomi00 wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    There's always one...
    Make that two....

    In addition to the very valid points about talent pool, participant numbers, etc there is the issue of boxing being a subjective sport. Looking at the scoring in the final shows huge discrepancies between the judges every round.

    That point alone will always make her achievements pale in comparison to Sonia O'Sullivan in my eyes.

    But best of luck to her in London.


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    #69
    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭J-Fit


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Make that two....

    In addition to the very valid points about talent pool, participant numbers, etc there is the issue of boxing being a subjective sport. Looking at the scoring in the final shows huge discrepancies between the judges every round.

    That point alone will always make her achievements pale in comparison to Sonia O'Sullivan in my eyes.

    But best of luck to her in London.

    Hallelujah! Or something to that effect.


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    #70
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    J-Fit wrote: »
    Oh my God. Thanks for the lesson. Lets just agree to disagree on this one, no matter the semantics.
    Yeah, its probably best for you to walk away, there's just no way back at this point.

    FFS, a magnificent world beating Irish athlete comes to the fore, and look what drops out of the woodwork to denigrate her achievements. And that goes for you too, jimoslimos. Back to London with you.


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    #71
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    I don't like women's boxing but fair play it is there and she is the best in the world at it.


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    #72
    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭J-Fit


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Yeah, its probably best for you to walk away, there's just no way back at this point.

    FFS, a magnificent world beating Irish athlete comes to the fore, and look what drops out of the woodwork to denigrate her achievements. And that goes for you too, jimoslimos. Back to London with you.

    No way back from where? The judgement of the great Doc Ruby? Like I give a sh*t about your opinion of me. Give me a break. I simply fail to see how her achievement is any less as a result of my opinion and any more because of yours! You need a little more objectivity in your life.


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    #73
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    J-Fit wrote: »
    No way back from where? The judgement of the great Doc Ruby? Like I give a sh*t about your opinion of me. Give me a break. I simply fail to see how her achievement is any less as a result of my opinion and any more because of yours! You need a little more objectivity in your life.
    Down ye curs, there's no seat for you at the table of champions.

    But do feel free to start a thread in AH whenever you achieve world champion status in... whatever.


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    #74
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,291 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    J-Fit wrote: »
    Don't know enough about boxing to argue this but it's still a shallow talent pool (only 12 in the Olympics?).

    Deliberate on the part of the Olympic committee. They wanted the number of participants in all sports to remain unchanged where possible as theres been a gradual but continuous increase over the years.

    Boxing was forced to keep its total at exactly 296 competitors, so the question was how much to reduce the mens competition by. 3 compressed weight divisions of 12 for the women was the compromise reached after tough negotiations, with the men reduced to 260 over ~10 weight divisions.

    So there should be no assumptions that it was a 'talent pool' issue, it was sporting politics and money. I'd expect the womens allocations to go up over the next few Olympics.


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    #75
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Yeah, its probably best for you to walk away, there's just no way back at this point.

    FFS, a magnificent world beating Irish athlete comes to the fore, and look what drops out of the woodwork to denigrate her achievements. And that goes for you too, jimoslimos.
    I think people are getting ahead of themselves with their praise here, nothing should be closed to criticism. If you want a love-in, open a thread in the Boxing forum.

    I hold the same opinions on the merits of many other 'Olympic' sports and their competitors, whether it is due to subjective judging (Boxing, gymnastics, diving), high cost of entry (sailing, equestrianism) or participant numbers. Just because she's Irish doesn't mean I'll jump on the bandwagon and change my views - I do however hope she does well and wins gold (which I know, could be construed as bandwagon jumping)
    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Back to London with you.
    Ah, you noticed my location :D


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    #76
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    Truthfully though women's boxing is poor as a spectacle.


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    #77
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    So there should be no assumptions that it was a 'talent pool' issue
    In fact one might say that the competition is disproportionately intense for womens' boxing.

    I guess the Obamas knew what they were doing after all.


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    #78
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Has an Irish athlete ever dominated their chosen field of sport in the manner she has?


    That clip of her sparring with yer man was scary btw.


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    #79
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Born to Die wrote: »
    bla blacouldnt blow snow off a rope bla bla



    Tell that to Paddy Barnes, a european and commonwealth games gold medal winner.

    If she landed you with any of them shots, you would be dropped.


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    #80
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Looks like a warrior / fights like a warrior.

    I could see in those determined brown eyes.. however teh ginger bubblehead befell a similar fate


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    #81
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    IrishAm wrote: »
    Tell that to Paddy Barnes, a european and commonwealth games gold medal winner.

    If she landed you with any of them shots, you would be dropped.

    Paddy Barnes,hahahahahaha

    5' 6" 48kg :rolleyes:


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    #82
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    *Paddy Barnes, teh wee snide spide, why take pride when we've something to hide*

    I wanna hear it bouncin off the rafters


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    #83
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Born to Die wrote: »
    Paddy Barnes,hahahahahaha

    5' 6" 48kg :rolleyes:


    Better get her in against one of the Klitschko's then I suppose.....:confused:


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    #84
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Born to Die wrote: »
    Paddy Barnes,hahahahahaha

    5' 6" 48kg :rolleyes:

    And shes what 5'7 55-60kg?

    An advantage, yes, but irregardless, women boxers are more than capable of "knocking snow off a rope".

    Seriously, man. Ireland, a small nation of 4.5 million, has produced one of, if not, the best womens boxer on the planet. We should be proud of that and be cheering her on, not knocking her and her sport.

    She seems like a genuinely nice girl too.


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    #85
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    Born to Die wrote: »
    I don't like women's boxing but fair play it is there and she is the best in the world at it.
    IrishAm wrote: »
    And shes what 5'7 55-60kg?

    An advantage, yes, but irregardless, women boxers are more than capable of "knocking snow off a rope".

    Seriously, man. Ireland, a small nation of 4.5 million, has produced one of, if not, the best womens boxer on the planet. We should be proud of that and be cheering her on, not knocking her and her sport.

    She seems like a genuinely nice girl too.

    Not knocking her at all. She seems like an absolute cracker.


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    #86
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    Better get her in against one of the Klitschko's then I suppose.....:confused:

    The two of them together. Whilst blindfolded. Just to be sure if shes good, like. :)


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    #87
    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,088 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    will someone please slow this bandwagon down so i can get on too


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    #88
    Paudee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭Paudee


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    She's real cute I think.

    Would marry/10


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    #89
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    will someone please slow this bandwagon down so i can get on too

    If tiddly-fecking-winks was an Olympic sport and had an Irish person contesting, I would be cheering them on too.

    Anyone,who represents this country, at any level and at any sport, will have my support!


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    #90
    ForeverYoung90
    Registered Users Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭ForeverYoung90


    Well done to Katie on her 4th World Championship win.Now heres hopeing she goes on to fulfill her dream of winning Olympic gold in London this summer.

    But it just got me thinking where this super athlete can go from there presuming she wins the gold.She will have done it all in amateur boxing.

    America are realising that Womens Boxing can be big business and Katie could be massive.Not only is she the best amateur boxer in the world she is also a beautiful looking 26 year old woman.She would be a promoters dream and could make a fortune in big fight nights and advertising deals.


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    #91
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    Watching Katie Taylor box in the olympics is going to be the sporting highlight of my year. Can't wait and I'm super excited for her.


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