Olympic Draw (Boxing)

I dont understand the countback system but its not that straightforward.
Hunter (USA) vs Beterbiev (RUS) was 10-10. RUS won on countback but on here the scores show 30-29 Hunter

http://www.london2012.com/boxing/event/men-heavy-91kg/match=bxm091402/index.html

:happy War Ogogo

 

Its getting a bit shambolic now to be honest....

 

It's on twitter, few journalists have tweeted it. Quoted AIBA as saying Ukraine had "no special grounds" for appeal.

 

Might not even bother watching it, you can sort of let it slide by when it's not this obvious but this is a joke

 

Even before all the controversies these past 2 days, the referees were starting to annoy me with the way they get involved too easily.

 

:good How the hell do they work it out then?

 

I honestly dont think they know...

 

boxing is fast becoming a joke at these games

 

One more thing - there's 5 judges. The links only show 3 scores for each round.

 

Highest score and lowest score are taken off.

 

Just a guess but perhaps they take the total score from all 5 judges then divide by 3.

Perhpas using this method Ogogo won by 0.2 of a point or something similar, I dunno:think

Edit: Obviously the score were tallied even ignore that last sentence. Maybe Ogogo managed 51.9 & Khytrov got 52.4 & once they rounded off it was a draw?

 

The commentators mentioned that they used to do that for the countback before but not anymore and the system has changed :huh

Like DrMo pointed out, Mike Hunter lost yesterday on countback even though like the Ukrainian he was one point up. The Americans would surely have kicked up a massive fuss if they thought they got shafted.

 

I honestly dont know at this stage.

but the ukranians obviously complained for a reason.


Anyway, moving on. Who we tipping in the evening sessions? Any outsiders to upset a favourite?

 

What's the fuss about , just seen, was close not like last night but close

 

at least its a fair representation of the pro game as well then I guess