Boxing Tokyo Olympics introduced a new system policy

Boxing Tokyo Olympics introduces a new system policy for judgment October 28, 20:20

IOC = International Olympic Committee is planning to introduce a new system at the Tokyo Games that will instantly display punches that the referee has determined to be “effective” in order to increase the transparency of boxing decisions made at the Olympics. I understood this through interviews with related parties.

As for the Olympic boxing, there were a number of cases in which Yasunaga was suspected at the last Rio de Janeiro tournament. In addition, the AIBA = International Boxing Association, which oversees amateur boxing, has been suspended for qualification due to issues such as organizational management, and boxing for the Tokyo Games will be conducted mainly by a special IOC team.

Under these circumstances, the special team of IOC has devised a new system that instantly displays punches that the referee has determined to be “effective” with the support of Japanese companies to increase the transparency of boxing decisions. I learned through interviews with the people concerned that the policy is to be introduced at

In the Olympics, multiple referees beside each ring count the number of effective punches for each player and give a score for each round, but it is not clear which punch was determined to be effective, leading to incorrect judgment It was pointed out.

In the new system, when the judge judges that the punch is valid and presses the button, it will be displayed in real time on the monitor, and the basis of the judge will be clearer than before. The IOC special team is to test this system and test the results at a test tournament starting at the Kokugikan in Tokyo from 29th, for the introduction of this system at the Tokyo Olympics.

Amateur boxing scoring system

Amateur boxing at the Olympics takes place in three rounds, with five referees scoring 10 dominant players and 9 to 7 inferior players per round. Each player must always give a superiority or inferiority to each player. If superiority or inferiority is close to each other, it is determined as “10 vs. 9”. Determined by the total number of three rounds.

The referee gives points based on the “number of effective strikes” specified in the rules and “whether do you dominate the game tactically”? The reason for the score, such as whether it was done, is not disclosed, so it is difficult to understand the criteria for the judgment. The people concerned about this current system pointed out that it was easy to lead to mysterious decisions.

What is a new system for judgment?

The system that the IOC = International Olympic Committee aims to introduce for the first time in the Olympics is an epoch-making one that allows the referee to determine which punch is an “effective strike” that leads to a win or loss in real time through a monitor.

A special team chaired by IOC committee member Morinari Watanabe will try this at a test tournament held at Kokugikan in both countries in cooperation with Japanese companies.

The system presses the red button if the referee next to the ring determines that the red player's punch is valid, and presses the blue button if the blue player determines that the punch is valid. When the button is pressed, which player's punch is “effective” is immediately displayed on the screen. In front of this screen is a referee called “Advanced Referee”, which allows another referee to check the progress of the decision.

As a result, it is believed that this will lead to the suppression of referral fraud and mysterious decisions. In the Tokyo Olympics production, a screen showing whether or not it is an “effective shot” is also displayed on the monitor of the venue, and improvements are being made so that it can be easily communicated to the audience.

A series of mysterious decisions in amateur boxing

In amateur boxing, mysterious decisions have been a problem repeatedly.

Overseas, mysterious decisions were made one after another in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics held in 2016 three years ago, and fraud and suspicion of eight hundred chiefs have been pointed out by some referees.

In Japan, it was accused last year that the heading group of amateur boxing, Akira Yamane at the time of the Japan Boxing Federation, was intervening in the judgment of the referee. It was recognized that it was done.

At that time, several referees responded to NHK interviews, revealing their experience of making unfair judgments such as “I felt the intimidation of the chairman and won the president ’s favorite player”. It was. In response to these deep fraud issues, the IOC has appealed for the need for reform.