Michael Conlan irate after controversial loss. Watch here: https://t.co/Sg2KTSRTDS https://t.co/4fXhWtjbsK
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) August 16, 2016
Conlan robbed of Olympic medal by judges (RTE News)
Spaghetti Hoop writes:
Daylight robbery as Michael Conlan denied Olympic medal by more farcical judging. All three judges somehow went for his Russian opponent in the first and third rounds.
Meanwhile…
You’ll never beat the Irish.
Take that, sailing world.
Eat my sail.
Etc.
Murphy magic in Rio as Ireland secure silver (RTÉ)
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This is a rubbish Olympics. Not just the Irish team problems but the whole thing is a mess really.
That’s what corruption does. Makes money for a few, screws up everything for everyone else.
Meanwhile everytime you turn on the BBC , god save the queen is being belted out for another Gold medal. It has to be more than just funding!
Its drugs pal. I’m confident a number of the UK gold medalists are taking something, and I’m guessing there is one taking EPO.
Yep, Mo Farrah is defo NOT on drugs. Lol.
100% agree! No way is Mo on the gear. He is actually publicly AGAINST drugs. It was only his running partner and his coach involved in EPO, remember? And remember then, him being so straight, that when he found out he quickly changed coaches cause that’s totally not what he’s into.
And only missed two random drug tests!
Could happen to a bishop!
It was his FAULTY DOORBELL not his desire to hide the fact that he is gobbling up bowls of EPO and cortosteroids for breakfast. His DOORBELL.
Has to be, The rise and rise of these athletes is astonishing! BBC don’t ask any tough questions for example Cavindish knocking over the Korean in the Track cycling, crash wasn’t even mentioned in the post race interview.
Definitely some of TeamGB are doping but ‘Its drugs pal’ is pathetic.
The UK has pumped money in Olympic sports over the last 20 years. They have also put effective structures in place – importing decent coaches, imposing proper plans & cutting funding on sports which were not performing.
They have also done some smart but possibly less laudable things like concentrate on sports which have a high financial bar to entry like sailing & (don’t laugh, you need a fecking velodrome) cycling.
They have gone from 36th in the medal table in 1996 to second (so far) this year.
Meanwhile we have Hickey & Treacy & Carruth & a host of duffers, msot of whom have had their positions for eons. Athletes aren’t spotted, developed, coached properly. Decent athletes aren’t even treated very respectfully a lot of the time. And a s a result we win less medals per capita than almost any country against whom we compare ourselves in other areas.
Yeah, fair point. I was only commenting for the craic on the ‘Its drugs pal’. I know its not ALL drugs. However, to our defense, we did similar in boxing after Sydney. We set out a long term plan of improvement and investment in boxing, and in 2 games (post Athens success plan) came home with 8 medals in one sport. That plan was developed and managed by Billy Walsh. Now look, gone in a week. I can’t see more money going into boxing now.
Lovely shiny UK medals – I’ll adopt them and take them as my own!
A complete joke , all 3 judges are in someone’s pockets. The Russians are a disgrace to sport
I agree. But don’t forget the irish cheat who was trying to win by using drugs though. Or the guy who doped his horse. Or Michelle Smith. We’re all in the same boat.
So It’s fair Conlon gets robbed in your opinion
while I agree that our copybook isn’t clean, There is a world of a difference between a few athletes cheating and a state sponsored doping programme and quite clearly state bribery.
The Russians are a disgrace and the world of sport wouldn’t miss them for a second.
Well the US are fairly filthy in that department too no?
I don’t remember evidence of the FBI raiding labs and taking samples away and replacing them with other mysterious samples?
No but check out what allegedly occurred at the 1984 Games.
Custo, Michelle smiths winning Olympic times are the slowest for the 3 before and every Olympics since! Makes you think hey
The Atlanta pool was a slow pool
He’s 100% right, you wouldn’t have to be au fait with the ins and outs of boxing to see that he was the more dominant and more skillful boxer in every round. Nikitin had to get attention twice such was Conlons force and yet the Russian won. Backhanders all round to them judges, and absolute farce of a scorecard.
Uh oh…..http://www.irish-boxing.com/controversy-irish-judge-involved-olympic-heavyweight-final-robbery/#
Exactly, the IABA is corrupt. The heavy weight decision was Kazakhstans version of Michael Conlon. Who cares what nationality the judges are. The IABA is corrupt. If any judge is found to be cheating, or giving favoritism, get rid of them.
They should be punished more then any cheating athlete.
The Guardian called out the corruption at the beginning of the month… https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/01/rio-2016-olympics-boxing-corruption-allegations
Jesus! I saw the heavyweight boxing final last night where the Kazakhstani fighter was totally robbed. Russia got the gold of course. How much did Putin spend on paying off the judges? Russia probably should have been banned from this Olympics.
He doesn’t pay, he kidnaps their families.
210 Poloniums…. that’s how much.
Even the Russian fighter was embarrassed.
There was a report in the guardian a few weeks ago accusing that the Russians had already paid off the judges
Give it a rest.
Though, in fairness, I did lol
Poor lad, not fair
the high performance unit should be closed down….. and the money used to bribe judges = success!
This^
People only protest this much when they have a secret Katy folder on their laptop.
Bandwagon for sale.
The Russians will buy it!
Never box jesus!
Poor lad.
Ah lads would ye relax, he still came second.