It is, Great Britian dont have a team at the World Championships. England team as above, Scotland have 1 boxer and Wales have 4 boxers.Wales wrote:Okay, thought the worlds was nations (scot, eng, wales etc..) but the olympics was UK ?
The POlice are seeking them? IN the UK they would be given a three bedroom council house, a generous allowance, a translator, and would be encouraged to bring their family over....whilst some poor bast@rd pensioner dies of hypothermia and alzheimer's patients are denied medicine.Wales wrote:CHICAGO -- Two Ugandan fighters and one from Armenia were being sought by Chicago police on Thursday after going missing from their delegations at the World Boxing Championships, organizers said.
Doug Arnot of the organizing committee said the three fighters had left their respective delegations, apparently voluntarily, without contacting their trainers or team officials, and for that reason the case had been turned over to police as a missing persons search.
"When the delegations from these countries told us of the absences, we contacted the Chicago police department which will investigate the matter," Arnot said.
Chicago was given the job of hosting the championships in May after the event was withdrawn from Moscow.
Amateur boxing powerhouse Cuba chose not to send a team rather than risk fighters defecting. That decision came in the wake of the attempted defections of two Cuban boxers during the Pan American Games in July.
Their attempted defection followed last December's loss of Olympic champions Odlanier Solis, Yan Barthelemi and Yuriorquis Gamboa who quit the team while training in Venezuela for the Pan American Games.
uh I'm not sure they pay for both out of the same budget. Immagration is worth billions to the UK and polititions are too pussy to make the case for it. There would be more patients dying if we didn't have 40% of NHS doctors!E wrote:The POlice are seeking them? IN the UK they would be given a three bedroom council house, a generous allowance, a translator, and would be encouraged to bring their family over....whilst some poor bast@rd pensioner dies of hypothermia and alzheimer's patients are denied medicine.Wales wrote:CHICAGO -- Two Ugandan fighters and one from Armenia were being sought by Chicago police on Thursday after going missing from their delegations at the World Boxing Championships, organizers said.
Doug Arnot of the organizing committee said the three fighters had left their respective delegations, apparently voluntarily, without contacting their trainers or team officials, and for that reason the case had been turned over to police as a missing persons search.
"When the delegations from these countries told us of the absences, we contacted the Chicago police department which will investigate the matter," Arnot said.
Chicago was given the job of hosting the championships in May after the event was withdrawn from Moscow.
Amateur boxing powerhouse Cuba chose not to send a team rather than risk fighters defecting. That decision came in the wake of the attempted defections of two Cuban boxers during the Pan American Games in July.
Their attempted defection followed last December's loss of Olympic champions Odlanier Solis, Yan Barthelemi and Yuriorquis Gamboa who quit the team while training in Venezuela for the Pan American Games.
According to recent figures, immigrants bring 6 Billion to the UK, but cost 8 billion......that's a severe deficit.josh fg wrote:uh I'm not sure they pay for both out of the same budget. Immagration is worth billions to the UK and polititions are too pussy to make the case for it. There would be more patients dying if we didn't have 40% of NHS doctors!E wrote:The POlice are seeking them? IN the UK they would be given a three bedroom council house, a generous allowance, a translator, and would be encouraged to bring their family over....whilst some poor bast@rd pensioner dies of hypothermia and alzheimer's patients are denied medicine.Wales wrote:CHICAGO -- Two Ugandan fighters and one from Armenia were being sought by Chicago police on Thursday after going missing from their delegations at the World Boxing Championships, organizers said.
Doug Arnot of the organizing committee said the three fighters had left their respective delegations, apparently voluntarily, without contacting their trainers or team officials, and for that reason the case had been turned over to police as a missing persons search.
"When the delegations from these countries told us of the absences, we contacted the Chicago police department which will investigate the matter," Arnot said.
Chicago was given the job of hosting the championships in May after the event was withdrawn from Moscow.
Amateur boxing powerhouse Cuba chose not to send a team rather than risk fighters defecting. That decision came in the wake of the attempted defections of two Cuban boxers during the Pan American Games in July.
Their attempted defection followed last December's loss of Olympic champions Odlanier Solis, Yan Barthelemi and Yuriorquis Gamboa who quit the team while training in Venezuela for the Pan American Games.
Back to the point, how many of our boys are now left in the competition?
Depends what figures you use. The government figures say immagrents contribute a couple of bill more than they take. Oh and the reson we came back from the world wars was immagration (we brought in West Indians then Asians to help re build. Another stat is that we need 5 million by 2020 if people are to retire at 70 years old.E wrote:According to recent figures, immigrants bring 6 Billion to the UK, but cost 8 billion......that's a severe deficit.josh fg wrote:uh I'm not sure they pay for both out of the same budget. Immagration is worth billions to the UK and polititions are too pussy to make the case for it. There would be more patients dying if we didn't have 40% of NHS doctors!E wrote: The POlice are seeking them? IN the UK they would be given a three bedroom council house, a generous allowance, a translator, and would be encouraged to bring their family over....whilst some poor bast@rd pensioner dies of hypothermia and alzheimer's patients are denied medicine.
Back to the point, how many of our boys are now left in the competition?
ANd one of the problems with the NHS is that it's cligged up with health tourists not to meantion immigrants who use A and E as their local doctor....
England is the 4th most densely populated land in the world - the last thing it needs is more people.
The whole 'England needs immigration to survive' is a myth used by naive idealists.
FOr f's sake ENgland came back pretty well having been bombed the crap out of by the Germans and losing around a million young men in each of the world wars.... I think we can cope without mass immigration.
But let's not go down this path......it's a boxing forum and I can live without the facile 'bnp' 'racist' etc etc etc accusations.
I hope he does well. Though when I saw him down the gym he seemed a bit easy to hit..........bigped wrote:My good mate stehpen simmons won his first fight, hope it continues only scot rep. below in the info:
91kg Stephen Simmons (SCO) bt Ousmane Diatta (SEN) RSC1
Pumped up Scot Steve Simmons (Leith Vic AAC) came out of his corner throwing hard straight scoring punches at a capable looking Senegalese opponent. An early 6:0 lead saw Diatta threaten to throw something big. Simmons got their first with a perfect short left hook which Joe Frazier would have been proud to own. The Senegalese man was left stretched on his back like a still from an American B movie. Somehow the game Diatta got to his feet at 8 but was in no condition to carry on. The referee waived the contest off just under a minute of the first round.
On going back to the corner Simmons genuinely enquired of coach Terry Edwards, “if that was ok?” Sharp Londoner Edwards replied “What took you so long?”.
A happy corner wandered off to the dressing room where they were besieged by American press who were delighted with the spectacular one punch knock-out.
Leave it out. If you've got kids of less than average intelligence then they're fu*ked aren't they? I mean, it's not the first wave of immigrants that are the problem (we can compete with office cleaners and fast food tenders), it's the second generation of british born of immigrants that cause the problem.josh fg wrote:Depends what figures you use. The government figures say immagrents contribute a couple of bill more than they take. Oh and the reson we came back from the world wars was immagration (we brought in West Indians then Asians to help re build. Another stat is that we need 5 million by 2020 if people are to retire at 70 years old.E wrote:According to recent figures, immigrants bring 6 Billion to the UK, but cost 8 billion......that's a severe deficit.josh fg wrote: uh I'm not sure they pay for both out of the same budget. Immagration is worth billions to the UK and polititions are too pussy to make the case for it. There would be more patients dying if we didn't have 40% of NHS doctors!
Back to the point, how many of our boys are now left in the competition?
ANd one of the problems with the NHS is that it's cligged up with health tourists not to meantion immigrants who use A and E as their local doctor....
England is the 4th most densely populated land in the world - the last thing it needs is more people.
The whole 'England needs immigration to survive' is a myth used by naive idealists.
FOr f's sake ENgland came back pretty well having been bombed the crap out of by the Germans and losing around a million young men in each of the world wars.... I think we can cope without mass immigration.
But let's not go down this path......it's a boxing forum and I can live without the facile 'bnp' 'racist' etc etc etc accusations.
Anyway can someone tell me how many brit fighters are left in the world championships.
ABA Boxing wrote:
54 kg Joe Murray (Slight Chance of medal depending on draw)
60 kg Frankie Gavin (No Chance)
64 kg Bradley Saunders (No Chance)
69 kg Neil Perkins (Team GB Best Chance)
81 kg TBC (Likely to be Tony Jefferies) (No Chance)
The lads have done great - its going to be fantastic to have a few fighters to follow at the Olympics. Who knows how far they can go next year!? It will be great for the sportSmigga wrote:ABA Boxing wrote:
54 kg Joe Murray (Slight Chance of medal depending on draw)
60 kg Frankie Gavin (No Chance)
64 kg Bradley Saunders (No Chance)
69 kg Neil Perkins (Team GB Best Chance)
81 kg TBC (Likely to be Tony Jefferies) (No Chance)
Preety bad predictions don't you think, ABA Boxing?
Sorry you didn't have money on it with me now like I offered
of course you're glad. Otherwise why would you be so pessimistic and write off the lads' chances before they even laced one glove up.ABA Boxing wrote:Congrats to the boys who qualified, none have yet to get a medal, so its not over yet is it?
And for once im glad for you to prove me wrong!
Maybe now you can jump down off your high horse and face realityABA Boxing wrote:Of course I want them to do well, but if anyone thinks because the Cubans are out it will be any easier, are very much mistaken.
Britain relies on a good draw to progress in a tournament, but with there being so many excellent boxers, a good draw will be impossible. Britain gets blinded by the success at tournaments like the Commonwealth games, which is a poor Tournament.
I wish the GB team all the best, but most if not all will be out before the medal stages. That’s not being unpatriotic its just reality.
They can prove me wrong; it’s up to them to do the business!
