Boxing at the Summer Games of the XXXII Olympiad, Tokyo

@Serge @CST80 @The Professor ban this nationalistic trolling idiot. Obvious alt of some banned member anyway.

 

Sadly, there is going to be no Val Barker Trophy awarded for this Olympiad.

backstory: AIBA was stripped of all rights of governance of boxing at the Games in 2019 when embroiled in mismanagement scandals, with the IOC creating its own Boxing Task Force to administrate them instead - the first time in a century it hadn't been done by AIBA.

Now, the BTF has no affiliation with AIBA, nor did they receive any mandate to continue any of that organization's traditions including the creation of a committee to deliberate the best p4p boxer of the Olympics. AIBA owns all rights pertaining to use of the name of the VBT or likenesses of its hardware - and they've been ousted by the IOC.

My hope was that AIBA would do the mature thing and still present a trophy in both the men's and women's division just to keep the succession alive, so as to not punish the athletes themselves for its struggles with the IOC. Being that it now is Wednesday morning in Tokyo, three days after the closing ceremony, and that AIBA neither sent a single representative to Tokyo nor has made a statement since (in past years it usually is on the same day the festivities conclude - in 2016 both Hasanboy Dusmatov and inaugural women's winner Claressa Shields were handed theirs while there were still events besides boxing ongoing on 8/21/16) - we can safely say the Val Barker tradition is dead...for now. At the very least, nobody is receiving it for the XXXII Tokyo Games.

 

Official confirmation:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/arti...y-not-awarded-tokyo-2020#.YRwDqTeMYWY.twitter



Goddamn stupid AIBA.

 

Why did Pipo get banned? I hope it wasn't by Prof for 'nationalistic trolling', in this instance where it was blatantly Syrup provoking everything.