Olympic Draw (Boxing)

That Ramirez from the USA struggled at times in the first round against what seemed like a pretty average opponent, odds are about right his one though I think.

 

Have backed Petrauskas the little duracell bunny guy against Keles - took 6/4 this morning.

 

Josh Taylor is in tough against Valentino. The scoring for British boxers will be really closely watched now.

 

Why did they announce it as 52-52 though then? As that was the reason they had to press their buzzers to pick a winner...

 

However they calculate the score the Russian ended up winning on countback & Ogogo-Khytrov was scored level so it went to the buzzers.

Noone seems to understand how the countback system works

 

Did they? Well that's ****ed up then. But it still doesn't explain how there's only three scores.

 

After reading through the rules I think Countback involves adding up each individual Judges scorecard. So for example the 5 judges could have had it 56-50 Khytrov, 52-52, 52-52, 52-52 and 55-53 Ogogo.

The highest winning scorecards for each boxer, in this case the 56-50 for Khytrov and the 55-53 for Ogogo would be removed leaving the three 52-52. That's how I think it works anyway

 

Aparently for countback they tally the 3 closest total scores, not the scores from the individual rounds, which are what appear on the 2012 website

 

The fuss is not about the bout but the adding of scores from the judges.

 

i thought Ogogo was extremely lucky. He boxed well in the first but the Ukrainian won the the 2nd and 3rd in a more domninat fashion than Ogogo won the opening round. Seems like the crowd are having a big say in the GB fights.

 

Just seeing this now, was the scores added up wrong?

 

katie taylor is gonna get robbed if jones gets through

 

i share the same worries

 

The truth of amateur boxing is that home advantage does count, i boxed countless times on my opponents home show and they always sneaked the tight ones. Of course it could just have been that i was ****.......