Pan Am under nineteen championships

[mike222]

These start later today with most nations attending.Four Puerto Ricans are in action in the first eight bouts.
Olympian Jeyvier Cintron meets Dominican Darley Perez at 52,others in action are Derreck Cuevas at 60, Luis Sanchez at 69 and Fabian Lopez at 81

[mike222]

Results
52 S Padilla ECU dec C Shock Arg
J Cintron PUR dec D Perez DOM
60 H Ramirez DOM dec D Cuevas PUR
64 J Soares BRA dec S Chavez ARG
69 L Sanchez PUR dec J Cardoso BRA
69 J Santos DOM dec P Anangono ECU
81 F Lopez PUR dec C Quinonez ECU
Tonight are the semi-finals with Francisco Vargas meeting Ecuadorian Jose Benette at 64
Overall a disappointing turn out with USA,Mexico,Cuba and Canada not sending boxers

[mike222]

Finals line ups
49 O Gonzalez PUR v J Caicedo ECU
52 J Cintron PUR v S Padilla ECU
56 L Tenorio ECU v S Almonte DOM
60 J Teixera BRA v W Villacis ECU
64 F Vargas PUR v C Adames DOM
69 L Sanchez PUR v J Santos DOM
75 N Rivera PUR v D Benitez ARG
81 F Lopez PUR v J Berroa DOM
91 S Delgado PUR v V Araujo BRA
+91K Nunez PUR v J Kleiver BRA
The PR team are looking good and some will make an impact at the upcoming world youth championships.

[locoxelbox]

It´s a shame the american continents countries can´t even afford to send their best youths. Only five countries participating with 35 boxers...All but two are guaranteed a medal . Six boxers reached the finals without even winning once...compare that to the last European Youths with 206 boxers from 35 countries.
Europe won 23 medals at the Olympics (out of 40), which makes 57,5% of the medals. America won 6 medals from 2 countries (15%) and Asia won 11 medals/7 countries (27,5%). Africa and Oceania didn´t medal.
The US start to get back to the top hasn´t started well...

[JMac]

It´s a shame the american continents countries can´t even afford to send their best youths. Only five countries participating with 35 boxers...All but two are guaranteed a medal . Six boxers reached the finals without even winning once...compare that to the last European Youths with 206 boxers from 35 countries.
Europe won 23 medals at the Olympics (out of 40), which makes 57,5% of the medals. America won 6 medals from 2 countries (15%) and Asia won 11 medals/7 countries (27,5%). Africa and Oceania didn´t medal.
The US start to get back to the top hasn´t started well...

USA Boxing has to sort out a lot of internal things first before we start rebuilding. The USOC hasn't decided yet if they are going to drop the hammer on USAB for the dismal perfomance in London. If they do, that won't help but only set USAB back further. I think USAB is trying to be proactive by hiring Predo Roque to help turn things around.

[locoxelbox]

I understand the dissapointment of the USOC but statistically the US team won one gold and one bronze (counting the women). That should count for something shouldn´t it?