Comments Thread For: AIBA Rejects Protests of Both Karneyeu and Larduet

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LONDON — Siarhei Karneyeu lingered in the ring after his Olympic heavyweight loss, crying and shaking his head in disbelief after his clutching, holding opponent got a narrow victory.

When Cuba's Jose Larduet fell victim to a similar decision about 15 minutes later, the Belarusian came back up the fighters' tunnel and intercepted Larduet on the way out of the ring, holding up Larduet's hand as the real winner.

Both Karneyeu and Larduet felt cheated by their opponents' clutch-and-grab tactics in the Olympic boxing tournament Sunday night, but amateur boxing's governing body disagreed.

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[mspiegelo]

These blatant robberies were clear examples of why the AIBA is a complete joke. These were even worse than the Errol Spence case. The Italian and the Azerbaijani should have been DQ'd- no question. Olympic boxing IS A JOKE.

[Russian Crushin]

Feel so bad for both of them. Rob of years of work

[southpaw_07]

Let them hold and hug, its a part of the game. It was ok for Robert Guererro to hug /hold Aydin for 90% of the fight but when the amateurs are doing it, its horrible??