RJJ at the 88 olympics

[BattlingNelson]

hopefully ill be able to dig up some more information and will post the paper in here in a couple of months if you guys are interested.

That would be cool!

[Southpaw16BF]

Yeah in the end it did come out that the judges were fixed, and a investiagtion was launched. One of the biggest robbires if not the biggest robbery ever in amature boxing.

[Kid McCoy]

im doing a history of the olympics course and im thinking of doing my paper on the robbery of RJJ at the 88 olympics. any articles on the subject? any thoughts? all help appreciated.

You may want to consider some of the wider circumstances behind what happened to Jones, dating back to the '84 Olympics in Los Angeles. At that Olympics there was a lot of outrage at the apparent pro-American bias of the judges in the boxing competition. Among the most controversial decisions was the one which went to American Jerry Page at the expense of the Korean Kim Dong-Kil, who had appeared to dominate the bout. The Koreans were so aggrieved at that and another decision which one of theirs lost to an American they threatened to withdraw from the boxing tournament altogether.

And it wasn't just the Koreans who were pissed. Henry Tillman, Frank Tate, Mark Breland and Tyrell Biggs all won controversial decisions against foreign fighters at the same Olympics. Howard Cosell called the bias towards Americans in the scoring "embarassing". Several of those decisions saw the American crowd boo their own guys. When Evander Holyfield was harshly DQ'd in his fight, it was viewed in the media as a belated attempt to even things up after all the accusations of bias.

So the Koreans (among others) go home seriously hacked off, and whaddya know, in four years time it's their turn to host the games. So you get what happened to Jones.

Don't get me wrong. What happened to Jones was a disgrace, but people often overlook the wider reasons behind it. Just because Kim Dong-Kil wasn't from the most powerful country on the planet and didn't go on to become one of the most famous boxers on the planet doesn't make what happened to him any less unjust.

[riera]

Good topic to choose and alot of things you can talk about. Why not do history of olympic boxing