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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Boxing
theGoingStick wrote:
suejoe wrote:
There's supposed to be women's boxing at the 2012 Olympics
You'd better dust off those boxing gloves and get in training suejoe
No thanks
My father-in-law used to be one of Randolph Turpin's sparring partners and one day he was demonstrating to my mother-in-law how a particular sparring session had gone and he accidently knocked her out
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Boxing
suejoe wrote:
theGoingStick wrote:
suejoe wrote:
There's supposed to be women's boxing at the 2012 Olympics
You'd better dust off those boxing gloves and get in training suejoe
No thanks
My father-in-law used to be one of Randolph Turpin's sparring partners and one day he was demonstrating to my mother-in-law how a particular sparring session had gone and he accidently knocked her out
Sue
More like she over cooked his steak and then after dinner he 'suggested' that he 'demonstrated' his skills - "I said RARE!"
Both of the Saunders' were impressive today. The body shots by the guy who stopped his opponent in round 1 were beastly albeit easy to land on an unguarded opponent.
David Price will get a bronze at least. Very strange fight - decent Lithuanian opponent went out in the first after pulling a thigh muscle??? First time I have seen this in a boxing match - obviously, fighters will go out because of punches, and sometimes knocks and knee or ankle injuries (rarely) but this looked really odd to me.
Anyone have any opinions?
I think David Price wanted to box all four rounds so as to get a decent tune-up for his next opponent (if I have got the system right he will be fighting for gold/silver).
No horseracing at the Olympics Hampton - thats the problem ;)
In fairness, i thought Paul Hession did great to finish 5th in his 200m semi. Not too many white men around running that quick.
As for the boxers well they have been just great. Backed Barnes and Sutherland both at 20/1 and i'm on Egan at 11/4 for a decent bet. Egan is a class act and should dispose of this Brit easily in the semi. I really think he will take the gold.
At least Ireland are set to pick up two medals in the boxing with Paddy Barnes & Kenny Egan into the Semi's.
Not been a good Games for Ireland so far!
Hampton, 2 medals consist a great games for Ireland. i take it you dont know our history of olympic medals
I did hear the other day that it's the first medals at an Olympic's in about 20 odd years!
To tell the truth I'm often concentrating on the performances of competors from the Mainland to notice how Ireland get up too at these events!
What happened to your lot at the Showjumping? You have a good record at that at major events!
Showjumping team didn't qualify but we have Denis Lynch in the Individual final tomorrow and he has a good chance of a good showing.
The mainland aren't you surrounded by Water as well
In 2004 we won one medal, a gold in show jumping but the bloody horse failed the drug test
In 2000 we won a silver in Athletics.
In 1996 Michelle Smith won 3 golds and a bronze in swimming, these are somewhat tarnished now as she was found guilty 2 years later of tampering with an out of competition drugs test.
Then we're back to 1992 when we last got boxing medals, 1 gold and 1 silver.
We had nothing in 1988 either so you can see now how excited we get with the prospect of any colour medal
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