Mary Kom lost her round of 16 bout during the Tokyo Olympics against the bronze medallist Columbian boxer Ingret Valencia and blamed the judges for her defeat
After the match ended, it was announced, “The winner of the match is decided by points by split decision. There was brief pause. Then the commentator announced “in red”, followed by another pause, but by now, Mary had already started celebrating and didn’t hear the rest of the commentary, which said Ingrit Valencia is the winner.
Mary Kom loses her Tokyo Olympics match and berates the judges subsequently for her defeat
Mary was unaware that she had lost the bout and was celebrating happily and also hugged her opponent. On the other hand, the audience thought that this wasa a great sporting gesture on her part and also kept the Olympic spirit alive. Many people also thought that she was bidding audieu to her Olympic journey on a happy note.
It was the same people who were surprised when they realized that the reason why she was celebrating was because she thought that she had won the bout. In an interview with PTI she said, “I am happy that I am inside the ring. When they took me for doping, I was still happy. Only when I saw the social media and my coach repeated it to me, it sunk that I have lost.”
An Indian fan, Mihir Vasavda also tweeted her whole reaction. Below is the tweet.
Mary's coach said to her: we have lost 3-2 but you are a winner for me. Mary: "That's when I realised. And then I saw the tweets… It is an unfair decision" https://t.co/wyLnQKNjQU
— Mihir Vasavda (@mihirsv) July 29, 2021
“This is the worst decision made, I don’t know what’s wrong with the judges?” Mary Kom continued.
Why did she blame the judges?
Mary was already winning the first two rounds, but she lost the bout. Let’s see how did this happen?
She was trailing in the first round by 4-1 and four of the five judges declared the score as 10-9, which was in Valencia’s favour. But in the second and the third round, Mary was dominating quite successfully and the judges also declared scores in her favour, but the total score was still in favour of Valencia.
In the third round she was dominating again, and the scores were 3-2 and it sghould have been 4-1, which would have helped her to get the final score in her favor.
She even went on to bash the boxing task force for “misjudging” in the flyweight category.
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