Rio 2016

btw the Likely Lads was hilarious, I know because I saw it.

 

Can it get any worser?
Brazilian police have arrested Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey over his alleged involvement in the Rio Games ticket controversy.fs
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/oth...o-over-olympics-tickets-controversy-1.2759048

 

A leading international boxing commemorator has described Michael Conlan’s loss at the hands of judges as “disgraceful” but said the Irish team overall had “underperformed”. Steve Bunce also said that it would be “too easy” to say that the departure of coach Billy Walsh had been a factor in the losses.

Despite appearing to win the fight, Irish boxer Conlan lost by unanimous decision to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals of the men’s bantamweight division. Veteran British sport pundit Bunce told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that if there had still been an appeals process as in previous Olympics, he is “absolutely convinced” Conlan would have won on appeal.

“(With) the Conlan decision, ‘disgraceful’ is not strong enough a word, he walked the first round, let’s get that right.

“He won the first clearly, and that was the problem, the judges went for Nikitin in all three score cards, that put Mike under pressure, he had to fight a different fight, he had to fight Nikitin’s fight.”

Backhanders for the judges. Reminds me of the Korean Olympics.

 

Saddle up and ride yer pony...do do dodo do do do

 

The Irish are nearly as embarrassing as the England football team.

 

The bloke in the womens' race

 

Swear to god there are 3 men in the womens' 800m.

 

Did you stop ****ing when you noticed or just power through it?

 

He started ****ing when he realised there were 3 men

 

Trev, I'm just about to start an argument with some Irish people about the boxer getting beaten. I heard he definitely won the 1st round but the others were tight? Can you give me your professional opinion on how the fight went please? Surely it isn't the craziest decision that the boxing world has ever seen like the Fenians want the world to believe

 

H8 to break it to you Iain, the boxing at the Lympics has a history of perverse results. It's no coincidence that the 2 recent controversial decisions went in favour of Russian boxers.

 

What are you implying?

 

I'm not implying anything, I'm stating that the Russians are flashing the cash.

 

In a highly controversial 3–2 judge's decision, South Korean boxer Park Si-Hun defeated American Roy Jones, Jr., despite Jones pummeling Park for three rounds, landing 86 punches to Park's 32. Allegedly, Park himself apologized to Jones afterward. One judge shortly thereafter admitted the decision was a mistake, and all three judges voting against Jones were eventually suspended. The official IOC investigation concluding in 1997 found that three of the judges had been wined and dined by South Korean officials. This led to calls for Jones to be awarded a gold medal, but the IOC still officially stands by the decision, despite the allegations. Jones was awarded the Val Barker trophy, as the best stylistic boxer of the 1988 games, which was only the third and to this day the last time in the competition's history when the award did not go to one of the gold medal winners. A similarly controversial decision went against U.S. team member Michael Carbajal. These incidents led Olympic organizers to establish a new scoring system for boxing.

 

The fenian got beaten and that is it. You think the Russian mafia paid thee judges or the Russian government?

 

That was definitely dodgy but not remotely comparable to the Russian beating the taig

 

Crazy conspiracy theory Russel at it again .

 

Not since the glorious 1690 battle of the Boyne has a fenian took so much of a hiding Monica.

Funnily enough the ****s moaned like **** after that defeat as well. In fact they are still moaning about it.

Don't even mention Oliver Cromwell ffs.

 

Or Hugh Dallas.