Group GB boxer Scrumptious Orie feels Olympic gold has been “taken away” from him after shedding by break up determination to Davit Chaloyan.
A cagey begin within the males’s super-heavyweight class noticed Chaloyan throw some good hooks, however Orie grew into the spherical and took management with some stable jabs.
A better contest adopted within the subsequent spherical, the place the Armenian placed on a stronger show, however Orie continued to land nicely. Orie then threw some explosive punches within the remaining spherical, together with a superb proper hook to Chaolyan’s face.
Nevertheless, his Olympic hopes got here to an in depth following a 3-2 loss on factors, that means Nice Britain have now misplaced all 4 of their bouts to this point and have simply two boxers left within the Video games.
“I can’t believe it,” Orie admitted. “I am completely gutted. For the previous eight years, I’ve dreamt about that Olympic gold medal and it has been taken away from me.
“It could be me, it could be the judges, but at the end of the day, that’s what’s happened. I feel like I’ve let myself down and my family.”
Did Orie do sufficient for victory?
Orie’s is the most recent early exit in controversial trend for a British boxer, following on from Rosie Eccles and Charley Davison shedding by the identical margin of their respective weight courses.
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Geraint Hughes explains Group GB’s Charley Davison and Rosie Eccles’ controversial boxing exits on the Olympics.
Sky Sports activities Information has requested Group GB for remark, with officers understood to be livid with the split-decisions involving Eccles and Davison over the primary two days of competitors.
“I’m not a judge so I can’t really tell you which way it went,” Orie added. “It’s too soon for me to start saying it’s unfair or fair, whatever it is. I do think I was a little bit hard done by, it was very close and I felt like I just did enough.
Orie felt he did sufficient to win the struggle and attain the quarter-finals
“You can argue the same for Rosie, you can argue the same for Charley, so I knew I had to go in strong and hard, but at the same time I didn’t want to overcommit myself.
“On the finish of the day that was the outcome, I needed to simply settle for with each fingers and transfer on.”
Eccles and Davison also exit for Team GB
Eccles was left in tears on Sunday after a controversial defeat to Poland’s Aneta Rygielska that she said “actually shocked” her. The Welsh boxer, who missed the Tokyo Games three years ago through illness and injury, was eliminated by a 3-2 split decision that drew boos and jeers around the North Paris Arena.
Rosie Eccles made an early exit within the ladies’s 66kg competitors
A boxer is aware of after they have gained a struggle,” Eccles said ringside as she momentarily fought back the tears. “I knew I had gained the struggle so I’m actually, actually shocked. It appears like I’m in a dream proper now, however not an ideal one.”
Davison, who was beaten by split decision on the opening day against former world champion Hatice Akbas, said: “I made a sluggish begin and picked up in direction of the tip however it was not sufficient. Within the second and third rounds, I upped the strain and scored with some photographs. What extra might I do?”
There at the moment are simply two Group GB boxers left within the Olympics. Middleweight Chantelle Reid faces Morcco’s Khadija Mardi – the 2023 world champion – on Wednesday, with light-middleweight Lewis Richardson taking over Serbia’s Vakhid Abbasov within the last-16 later that night.
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