Comments Thread For: Joe Ward Loses Bid To Land Spot in The Olympic Games

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Ireland boxer Joe Ward has lost his bid to land a late place at the Olympics at an emergency meeting of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in London.

The 18-year-old's lawyers launched an appeal after Ward was overlooked for a wild-card slot in the light-heavyweight division by amateur boxing's governing body, AIBA.

Ward, who is ranked four in the world and is the reigning European champion, argued the selection of Montenegro's Ratko Draskovic contradicted AIBA's original explanation that Ward was not chosen because he was 'not the next best boxer [in Europe].' [Click Here To Read More]

[Larsso]

absolute disgrace Joe wont be in the olympics this year. Sensational young boxer, going to be a star.

[tonyjones]

Our best male boxer sick that joe misses out

[MartinC]

This might drive him to impress as a pro.

[Earl-Hickey]

wot a joke

[Brickfist]

complete joke. just goes to show amateur boxing can be as corupt as the pro game. i hope ward decides to punch for pay and forgets about the amateur game as theres no garuntee he wont get robbed of his spot at the next olympics as well

[any craic lad?]

The bull**** off boxing id like too see Ward stay in the ams until the next world champs and then turn pro at maybe 20 get abit more experience but when things like this happen cant blame him for chucking it in

[HughJass]

disgraceful go pro m8 **** them go get get paid you deserve it ****ing comittees robbing youngsters of there dream shame on them hes clearly good enough

[GRUSTLER]

The hate was strong with that call but can't say it's unbelievable because England and Ireland have had a long beef.

[any craic lad?]

The hate was strong with that call but can't say it's unbelievable because England and Ireland have had a long beef.

Too be honest that would have nothing to do with it last time anything big happened between Ireland and England would have been the IRA bombing campaigh in the 80s and that was **********s from Northern Ireland during the sectarian violence but what happened here is just some plain old bull**** boxing decision.