Jack Marley loses his heavyweight quarter-final as Irish boxing team at Games reduced to two fighters
A dejected Dania Moorehouse after the judges awarded her French opponent Wassila Lkhadir the win in the Women's 50kg Round of 16 bout at the North Paris Arena. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inphoboxing decisions are still too unbelievable to be true, no matter who is running the show. Thursday night produced another maddening swing in the bout result which utterly enraged anyone inside the North Paris Arena who wasn’t from host nation France; or among the judges.
“If you have eyes, you know, every round was 5-0,” Antia said later. “But when I saw the first round was 3-2, I knew.” Worse still, one of the judges had awarded round one and two to Lkhadiri, and the other four had them level, meaning Moorehouse had to attack more in the last round. “I definitely feel like I didn’t take any big shots, even the shots I did take were just stupid jabs, or like a stupid little hook over the top. I pushed on in that third round thinking surely I have this. I just went for it.”
The Moorehouse decision, however, was right up there with the one which robbed Michael Conlan of his place in the semi-final in Rio in 2016. In that bout, Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin was so badly injured that he was unable to fight in the semi-final but still collected a bronze medal.
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