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Not banned. Stood down.....bowed to the OTT hype and pressure is all.

5 years later and still no proven corruption at all..there seems to be an ever ending ongoing investigation that has unearted no proof of corruption

Like I said, vast majority fights had right winner....of course, some fights were questionable.That is the sport and its subjective nature

Usual OTT hysterics and feigned outrage that we have...

IOC did not take over judging

IOC took over the managing and organizing of boxing at the games.

There is not much bad luck here other than the modern pentathlon horse draw

Rory McIlroy had a 1 in 7 chance of a bronze, that ain't 50/50

Rhys fell off the Pommel Horse

Sanita failed to deliver in the Olympics. Again.

etc etc

Kellie Harrington squeezed into the final on a 3-2 split, are we ignoring that?

But the reason AIBA were removed was not just over judging, but because of finance and governance. There were rumours the AIBA President had links to criminal gangs and the association itself was hugely in debt.

McClaren investigating now...still going on these past months....

Awful ot oe he said she said guff

Not saying corruption dos not happen, but it's way overplayed here

All correct, yes

I was more focusing on the judging claims......

There is not an orgainization on earth that is not corruptible as regards financial governance...

My take on Rio is that individual judges and referees may have been bribed (by the Russians), rather than the whole of AIBA.

Well if all the financial stuff and links to criminals mentioned above is true that tends to leave an organisation way more open to corruption than normal so the need for investigation would be valid

Kinda a good luck and a bad luck story really

We've had over 4 years of the AIBA basically investigating itself so now there is at last a chance to get close to the truth and see how deep and extensive that alleged corruption went. McLaren has an impeccable reputation so let's wait and see what he turns up. There's no point claiming there's a lack of evidence or proof when we know they were never really looking for it in the first place.

Some of the past judging in the boxing has been beyond belief. I know everyone remembers Conlan because that was the one that affected us most, but there were plenty more at the time that didn't involve Irish boxers. It's bordering on unbelievable that some people are still trying to defend the judging in Rio.

This time, while there have as ever been close calls that could have gone either way, the judging in boxing has felt very fair overall. Hopefully whatever changes are made are kept and the AIBA are kept as far away for the Olympics as possible.

So fair that Uzhbekistan and Kazakhistan have only one boxing medal apeice compared to 7 and 5 respectively in Rio.

Interesting. Were they the chief beneficiaries of, ahem, 'generous' judging in the past one wonders? Very noticeable that traditional boxing nations like Cuba, GB and the US have come back into contention at these Games.

Far worse decision today I thought in HW final bout. Cesar did his usal not engaging for 9 minutes and won a unanimous decision. Russian lad landed most the actual clean punches, as well as pressed the action all the way.

The BBC commentators were a sham. 30 seconds in and criticizing the Russian for starting slow....with Cesar running away and the Russian chasing him....and they slating the Russian

Not one singe mention of Cesar being negative and moving back all night. It was all the ususal Mayweather crap about not getting hit.

Yep. No to boxing as well. There have been numerous cases where the outcome was a mystery to all but the judges. I would have thought that they could come up with a tech solution (like fencing) that could count the landed punches.

It's testament to how much Olympic Sport has progressed in Ireland that returning with 4 medals is a major disappointment. We had the pedigree to claim 4 medals in Rowing alone whilst kinder draws would have made winning 3/4 medals in the Boxing ring very realistic. I think that Rowing and Boxing will continue to provide us with multiple medals at the next couple of Olympics: the growth of Rowing in this country is still on an upward curve, whilst our Boxing team was very much in transition in this Olympic cycle yet still produced 2 medals this time round. We should aim to win 5/6 medals in these two sports combined and aspire for a couple more in other disciplines. McClenaghan is probably our only competitor at the moment outside of Boxing and Rowing whose medal prospects stand at more than an outside chance - hopefully the likes of Woolley and the Men's 49er can elevate themselves to this status by Paris.

I think Rugby 7's should be a major target for us in future Olympics. Only two other European countries [GB and France] have as good a tradition in rugby as ourselves and the fact that we have played the sport [albeit the XV version] long before other countries [many of whom only started playing it seriously upon it being made an Olympic sport] should give us a competitive advantage in this field. Hopefully more players who do not breakthrough in the XVs game are encouraged to transfer to the Sevens programme. I think there is a particular opportunity on the women's side to sway our best players to the Seven's game given that their XV's equivalent is not professional: surely the carrot of an Olympic medal outweighs winning a 6 Nations for them?