Irish lightflyweight boxer Jim Rooney lost on a count of 13 to 1 in Bucharest today, thus missing out on a Olympic qualification, but all is not lost and he will have another chance to qualify for Sydney 2000. The Romanian Marian Velicu beat him.
Their has been many controversial results recently in Olympic qualifying events as the computer based scoring systems default at appropriate times leaving judging up to the scoring on paper method.
