Beaten by the cleverer fighter.Shame but he was never in it.Just out of interest where did he get his accent from?Thought he was from Dublin?
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Beaten by the cleverer fighter.Shame but he was never in it.Just out of interest where did he get his accent from?Thought he was from Dublin?
His dad is from the West Indies and I think he spent some time in Sheffield a while back.
Cleverer on the day. Can't argue with that as he got his tactics spot on in previous fight. Disappointing end for him though.Quote:
Originally Posted by FarBeag
He's from Palmerstown in Dublin. His dad is from St Vincents (of St Vincent & the Grenadines fame...). As above he spent a fair bit of time in Sheffield as a kid
Sutherland well beaten. He looked nervous at the start. Once you are behind in amateur boxing seems to be difficult to chase it.
Same with Paddy Barnes, well done lads and hard luck
FROM THE BBC website
Irish light-flyweight Paddy Barnes will have to be content with a bronze medal in Beijing after losing against China's Zou Shiming in Friday's semi-finals.
The Chinese gold medal favourite claimed a comprehensive 15-0 win over the Belfast fighter.
Barnes chased Zou all over the ring in the first round but still found himself 2-0 down despite landing a great shot.
Zou picked Barnes off during the rest of the bout although the Irishman later dubbed the final margin a "disgrace".
In the immediate aftermath of his defeat, a furious Barnes claimed that he didn't "care about the bronze medal".
"They can keep it for all I care," added Barnes, who blasted the judging in the bout.
"They (the judges) should hang their heads in shame.
"There's no doubt I lost the fight by miles but not scoring a point?
"I'm getting drug tested here. The judges should be getting drug tested.
"But we're in China so what do you expect."
The 21-year-old Irishman came out fighting in the first round and he certainly looked as though he had landed one good shot on the Chinese fighter.
Zou picked up six more points in the second round although the brawling Barnes, once again, appeared to be unfortunate not to have got on the scoresheet.
It was more of the same in the third round at Zou racked up five more points and kept the increasingly ragged Barnes scoreless to increase the lead to 11-0.
The pattern continued in the closing round as the defending world champion progressed to the decider.
Paddy was always going to be up against it, Darren was outclassed on the day. DeGale has quick feet to be fair and was able to slip Sutherlands punches relatively easy. Come on Kenny lets get to the final.
When your that far behind in amateur boxing after two rounds you have to go for broke. I thought he stood off him way too much. Yes the Chinese lad was like a snake (good movement and will win gold) but he needed to be roughed up and pinned on the ropes as much as possible. Make sure he knows he was in a fight.
C'mon Egan best of luck.
Hard lines Sutherland and Barnes, done yourselves and country proud.
On the Usain Bolt topic, we can kind of claim a bit of glory from him, he's trained by a Donegal man Richard Simms so if all else fails we can claim a few golds :D
damn right!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Egan wins, 10-3!!
Now we have to hope the Chinese fella doesn't win the other semi.....
Easy win in the end.. What time is the final on Sunday?
Great stuff Ken Egan.
I hope the final isnt too early- i'll be waking up from a stag do on Sunday morning/afternoon...
Looks like it's in the morning, 8.51..... better than this morning but not by much.
excellent performance and good to see he fought till the end and didn't run around the ring like a track runner once he edged in front.
Well done Egan, keep her lit :cool:
Final is definitely scheduled for 8.50am Sunday Morning. He'll fight a Chinese boxer, who just beat the kazakhstan favourite on countback
Well done, Kenny
Thought Simms was his manager. I think all the Jamican sprinters are trained by a Jamican legend from the 70's who's name escapes me at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Good win by Egan even if it is difficult to watch on RTE.ie
Keeps some Irish interest in the Olympics for the weekend anyway.
Fights Chinese boxer in the final Sunday morning at 8.51 AM
Well done Kenny Egan. I'll be up for watching that final. Great stuff and did us proud, as well as the two other boys up this morning. The fans are doing us proud too with the vocal support. Ole Ole though?
We've 4 competitors left. Alistair Cragg in 5,000m final, Martin Fagan in marathon, Robin Seymour in Mountain biking and, of course, Kenny
Oh and Simms is indeed just Bolts manager
Kenny Egan is the classiest Irish boxer ive ever seen
Correct Macy, the mans FULL name is Don O Riley Quarrie believe it or not, never won a gold in the 100 himeself but held the world record for a while. However, won a gold in Montreal in the 200MQuote:
Originally Posted by Macy
Quote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Yeah i totally agree there.
RTE are always going on about the scoring. I guess they are just getting carried away with national fervour, which is fair enuff, but i think the boxing scoring has been pretty ok from all the fights i have seen. Having 5 judges scoring is the best system that they could possibly have.
Either way all the Irish boxers have done us proud, and i hope Egan and Sutherland start their pro career straight away
Personally hope Egan stays amateurQuote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Yeah but dont you think he would make a great pro, he has an all round gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Did anyone see the women's football final with commentation from our manager Mick Cooke. Havent seen it myself but am worried that Setanta will be looking for him soon and we will have to look for a new manager! :D
Don't think another day or two as an amateur would do him any harm ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Was he on RTÉ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
All I remember hearing was Stephen Alkin.
Peter Waterfield (Great Name & Britain) posted a miserable 5th dive 3 1/2 Somersault -Tuck. he didn't land vertically in the water and I think his splash is still falling. He scored 40.80 but he may still qualify for the last 12 final.
After edit (1)
The Boy Thomas had his worst dive -sixth- Back 2 1/2 Somersault 1 /1/2 Twist - Pike but he'll compete in the Final. He made a mess of the same dive in the first round.
After edit (2)
The Boy Thomas made it but Waterfield finished in unlucky 13th and is out. I'm sorry for British Diving as a quiet sport suffers upheaval because of a juvenile and other British divers are compared to somebody weighting 47 kgs and 1m 56cm / 5' 1''. Daley shouldn't make as big a splash as he has in British Diving.
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...2/225172.shtml
(It fails to mention the number of Happy Meals he eats per week).
But his admirers are now justified in their decision to chose him for this Beijing games.
Semi-Final result - top 12 to the Final
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...html#DVM002201
I'm have no access to TV and am watching final without commentary on the Olympic home website.
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/
LIVE 01(I understand the stream halts every 20 minutes. Click play on Live 01 to resume).
Is the match online with commentary anywhere else?
He's not that powerful, and in the pros, at his weight, he'd be at a huge disadvantage. He's a boxer as aopposed to a fighter.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Paul Hession was up there with the leaders for a bit on the 5,000m. He just couldnt keep up and dropped out....
James Degale should have been disqualified today.
That would've been Cragg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pauro 76
The boxers who beat Joyce and Sutherland have gone on to win Gold...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...do/7578828.stm
you think you've seen it all in sport and then something like this happens.........!!!
that video will only work in the UK
BTW for thsoe of you interested in politics in the Olympics, Serbia are playin montenegro for a Bronze medal in Water polo tomorrow
Yeah but think he might have been doing the discussion bout it after rather than the commentary. Will get a chance to watch it tomorrow I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
International Amateur Boxing Association officials engaged in a war words in front of the world's press as the sport's governing body claimed to have uncovered an attempt to ******* the Olympic programme.
AIBA technical delegate Rudel Obreja's attempts to hold a press conference at the Workers' Gymnasium venue to highlight what he said were underhand practices were hijacked by AIBA secretary-general Ho Kim, and an unseemly spat ensued.
Obreja claimed Kim had personally overseen the changing of referees and judges for between '60 and 70%' of the Olympic bouts.
Obreja said: 'I want a clean and honest tournament but what's happening here is very bad. Under AIBA rules the names of referees and judges come out of a computer but here in Beijing that rule was broken.
'Ho Kim who calls himself secretary-general of this tournament has changed 60-70% of those names. I am speaking out now because I want the whole world to see what is going on. I expect to be expelled from AIBA for what I'm telling you.'
Obreja's microphone was then turned off and the press conference room lights turned off by officials just as Kim arrived to angrily accuse Obreja of undertaking a 'political exercise' and describing his claims as 'absolute nonsense'
Later AIBA issued a statement in which they announced they had decided to instigate a regular review of bout officials following information about attempts to manipulate the Olympic scoring system.
The statement read: 'Two months prior to the start of the competition, AIBA had obtained information regarding a possible attempt on the part of certain individuals, both within the organisation and within the competition officials, to manipulate the competition.
'As a result of this information AIBA initiated a number of steps to prevent interference among officials during the competition. Those steps included instigating a regular revision of the official draw of the referees and judges in order to ensure neutrality for all bouts.
'When the situation became more serious, AIBA also notified the IOC sports department of the issue and the IOC provided an independent observer to overview the competition.'
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The above taken from betfair forum,terrible judging,he (Egan) scored a lot of points which weren't given.I believe there were Chinese judges in fights involving Chinese fighters :eek:-a disgrace.