What is the feeling like in US amateur boxing following your performance in beijing? For some reason I'm quite interested to know, partly as it seemed before the tournament that many were already resigned to a poor performance - but I'm sure no one was expecting to come back with just one bronze - alongside the likes of India and Mongolia. Are big changes expected after 4 years? Has there been much of a backlash against the boxers etc? Basically nothing is said about it over here, the olympic boxing coverage has been 100% GB centered, unfortunately. --- As a side note - did anyone see the Indians fighting? I never caught any of them and can't get them on youtube - how do people that saw them rate them?
It was a ****ing disaster. There's going to be heads rolling in USA Boxing after this disgrace. The boxers aren't being blamed-they did their best and everyone is proud of them. The coaching staff though is all going to be gone. They need to go bye-bye ASAP. The residency program itself is a good idea but they need to change the way it works and swallow these egos and arrogance that a lot of USA Boxing's officials seem to have. They need to bring in an international coach from Cuba or Russia and the CEO seems to be open to that idea.
The Indians were very competent. This team seems to have had a bit of seasoning coming in having performed well in recent international tournaments. The Mongolians have been coming on like gangbusters. They're like the black Chinese... fast, powerful and agile. And the team has had some seasoning as well.
the coaching wasnt that bad. a few fighters didnt follow the correct gameplan. and a few were just told to throw more punches which they didnt listen to and it wouldnt have worked anyways. scoring was ugly in all the fights but i think there should be more diversity coaching wise for the us team. hopefully in 2012 it will be a different story!
