MemphisVol
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There will always be complaints about any sport that relies on judges. It's simply unavoidable.
That said, and with all respect, this year's Olympic boxing matches make it clear that we should not confuse a woman's right to choose with the fact that sometimes when rednecks screw lower life-forms, they get pregnant.
And the off-spring grow up to be IOC officials.
I'm not complaining because America's boxers lost time and time again. In fact, that may be one of the few justifiable results of the competitiion. America treats Olympic boxing linke, at best, a stepping stone for a pro-boxing career. In international terms we don't just suck, we, in Paris Hiltonesque fashion don't care that we suck.
But what about all the other teams & boxers, the teams and boxers from countries that unlike America do give a damn?
This year, for the first time ever, I gave up on Olympic Boxing before it even reached the quarterfinals. I gave up because it seemed like to me that, thanks to the new absurd scoring changes, all of a sudden Olympic boxing had been converted from a matter of skill to a matter of almost random chance. No matter how many blows actually landed, or how talented the boxers acutally were, the only thing that you could be sure of was that the judges' scores wouldn't remotely match the fight that had actually happened.
That said, and with all respect, this year's Olympic boxing matches make it clear that we should not confuse a woman's right to choose with the fact that sometimes when rednecks screw lower life-forms, they get pregnant.
And the off-spring grow up to be IOC officials.
I'm not complaining because America's boxers lost time and time again. In fact, that may be one of the few justifiable results of the competitiion. America treats Olympic boxing linke, at best, a stepping stone for a pro-boxing career. In international terms we don't just suck, we, in Paris Hiltonesque fashion don't care that we suck.
But what about all the other teams & boxers, the teams and boxers from countries that unlike America do give a damn?
This year, for the first time ever, I gave up on Olympic Boxing before it even reached the quarterfinals. I gave up because it seemed like to me that, thanks to the new absurd scoring changes, all of a sudden Olympic boxing had been converted from a matter of skill to a matter of almost random chance. No matter how many blows actually landed, or how talented the boxers acutally were, the only thing that you could be sure of was that the judges' scores wouldn't remotely match the fight that had actually happened.