THE OLYMPIC FEDERATION of Ireland (OFI) has confirmed that it has submitted its own data analytics to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of the review carried out by the boxing taskforce following Daina Moorehouseโs controversial defeat in Paris.
IOC chief executive officer Peter Sherrard said that while โthere has been a lot of work done on trying to make boxing less subjective,โ they felt โsomething wasnโt quite rightโ with the Wicklow nativeโs split-decision loss to Franceโs Wassila Lkhadiri in the womenโs 50kg division.
It later emerged in a report in The Times that two of the judges involved in Moorehouseโs fight โ Emil Gurbanaliyev and Sergei Krutasov โ had previously been stood down in 2021 after being randomly selected for integrity testing and found to be at โhigh riskโ of manipulating bouts.
The pair were re-instated for Paris and there was outrage in the immediate aftermath of the fight. Speaking to Morning Ireland, Sherrard said the IOC had contacted the OFI.
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โWe were in touch with them and provided the data analytics that our analysts had taken down from the fight and asked that they review that as part of the assessment that the boxing taskforce does.
โTo be fair, there has been a lot of work done on trying to make boxing less subjective, so the transparent scoring that would come at each round, thereโs a PWC oversight group that are employed to check and assess the scoring, but we do feel in that in that case, something wasnโt quite right.
โLook, unfortunately that sometimes is boxing and very glad to see that the boxing programme as a whole, particularly with Kellyโs performance, came through very strongly.โ
Elsewhere, OFI president Sarah Keane has confirmed that she has been approached to become the new CEO of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).
Currently CEO of Swim Ireland, Keane confirmed that no decision on her future has been made as she highlighted a pivotal moment for Irish boxingโs participation at the Games.
Keane explained that the IOC has requested that the OFI withdraw its recognition of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) as the national federation in the coming months.
The IOC wants the IABA to cut ties with the International Boxing Association (IBA), due to concerns around governance and corruption, and demanded that the IABA comes under the umbrella of the newly established World Boxing in order to participate at Los Angeles 2028.
โ[If] they vote to stay within the IBA, which means that federation wonโt be part of boxing, weโve been asked as an Olympic committee to cease their membership in the coming months,โ she explained to the Irish Examiner.
โThen itโs a case of, if you want boxing at the Olympic Games, and if you want to support high-performance this way, you have to create a new national federation.โ
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Olympic Federation of Ireland submits data analytics as part of controversial boxing review
THE OLYMPIC FEDERATION of Ireland (OFI) has confirmed that it has submitted its own data analytics to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of the review carried out by the boxing taskforce following Daina Moorehouseโs controversial defeat in Paris.
IOC chief executive officer Peter Sherrard said that while โthere has been a lot of work done on trying to make boxing less subjective,โ they felt โsomething wasnโt quite rightโ with the Wicklow nativeโs split-decision loss to Franceโs Wassila Lkhadiri in the womenโs 50kg division.
It later emerged in a report in The Times that two of the judges involved in Moorehouseโs fight โ Emil Gurbanaliyev and Sergei Krutasov โ had previously been stood down in 2021 after being randomly selected for integrity testing and found to be at โhigh riskโ of manipulating bouts.
The pair were re-instated for Paris and there was outrage in the immediate aftermath of the fight. Speaking to Morning Ireland, Sherrard said the IOC had contacted the OFI.
โWe were in touch with them and provided the data analytics that our analysts had taken down from the fight and asked that they review that as part of the assessment that the boxing taskforce does.
โTo be fair, there has been a lot of work done on trying to make boxing less subjective, so the transparent scoring that would come at each round, thereโs a PWC oversight group that are employed to check and assess the scoring, but we do feel in that in that case, something wasnโt quite right.
โLook, unfortunately that sometimes is boxing and very glad to see that the boxing programme as a whole, particularly with Kellyโs performance, came through very strongly.โ
Elsewhere, OFI president Sarah Keane has confirmed that she has been approached to become the new CEO of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).
Currently CEO of Swim Ireland, Keane confirmed that no decision on her future has been made as she highlighted a pivotal moment for Irish boxingโs participation at the Games.
Keane explained that the IOC has requested that the OFI withdraw its recognition of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) as the national federation in the coming months.
The IOC wants the IABA to cut ties with the International Boxing Association (IBA), due to concerns around governance and corruption, and demanded that the IABA comes under the umbrella of the newly established World Boxing in order to participate at Los Angeles 2028.
โ[If] they vote to stay within the IBA, which means that federation wonโt be part of boxing, weโve been asked as an Olympic committee to cease their membership in the coming months,โ she explained to the Irish Examiner.
โThen itโs a case of, if you want boxing at the Olympic Games, and if you want to support high-performance this way, you have to create a new national federation.โ
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