Ireland’s Olympics boxers Paris 2024

Aoife and Jude were very unlucky today. Showed a lot of class in defeat. Thought that RTE were really poor in not showing Aoife's fight live on RTE2. Would have been just over in time for McSharry's heat.

I'd add too that Aoife didn't fully adapt to how the fight was going tonight. She couldn't really have been said to have boxed well, even if up against an opponent who was hell bent on spoiling. She would have needed to have boxed a lot better than that in the next round to progress any further.

is boxing in the next Olympics? Is this guy just shite talking?

Yes, it did seem like she panicked a little - allowed herself to get dragged down to the level of the Pole too readily. Get into a slogging / wrestling match with a brawler and they will make you look bad and as if you are boxing poorly.

What are the rules now for warnings etc. It used to be back in the day that a judge could still give a warning on paper even if the ref hadn't given it in the ring. It might have been rare to do so but technically it was an option.

It is still there now?

The Pole should have been DQ’d. You can’t consistently operate outside the rules of the sport and warrant a warning that you ignore every couple of seconds at certain stages. How many times was she told to stop holding did she get in the bout? I’d say 8 minimum. But probably far higher.

But when Michael Conlan does it after being blatantly robbed in front of the whole world he's a sore loser.

I think you misread the question. I was talking about a judges warning. People are complaining about the ref not giving a warning, but it used to be the case in theory that the judge could still deduct via a judges warning even if the ref didn't give it.

Cahill and Donovan have been struggling with the abacus all week, listening to both trying to do the maths after round 2 in all bouts bar Harringtons has been painful.

That's fair enough,but Aoife beat the Polish girl in all their previous meetings. So it's a fair assessment to say she did underperform.

This is not to take away from the Polish girl- as Kellie said there are no easy opponents,but I doubt Aoife will be feeling that she did her best and was just beaten by the better opponent. The Polish girl was prepared to be dirty to try and win. Perhaps Aoife was too nice. She let the Polish girl dictate how the fight would go. She should have been a bit cuter and avoided a brawl by stepping back at times and picking off her opponent. Granted the referee didn't help her cause by not issuing a second warning to the Pole.

Boxing has been in the Olympics for over one hundred years, so it was hardly fresh in 2012. There's no justifiable reason for even contemplating to remove boxing as an Olympic sport. Unfortunately, the whole thing is political. The swimming was ridiculously boring. It gets so tedious watching all the extra events within one speciality stroke.