Former Olympic champion Michael Carruth believes that Ireland's boxers can succeed in Tokyo this summer and expects the female members of the team to mount the strongest challenge for medals.
Boxing has accounted for 16 of the medals won by Ireland at summer Games, a huge 52% of the total.
Carruth, who won Ireland's first boxing gold at Barcelona in 1992, accepts that the sport's history means expectations will always be high but he thinks success this year is realistic.
"We're the number one sport in relation to Olympic medal tallies so there's always a huge expectation of us," he told 2fm's Game On.
"But this time around we should get three or four girls qualified and the same with the boys. If we get eight boxers to Tokyo, we'll come home with two medals.
"You have Kellie Harrington, Michaela Walsh, Ceire Smith, Christina Desmond, Aoife O'Rourke. Five girls that could win medals.
"I think the girls have a stronger team than the boys.
"But you look at Kurt Walker, he won the EU and European Championships last year, and got to the last eight in the World Championships. He would be a huge fancy to qualify.
"Young (Brendan) Irvine if he's back to normal but again he has a good replacement in Jude Gallagher if he doesn't make it.
"If Walker isn't firing on full cans you have young Dean Clancy.
"You could go into the other weights, George Bates at 63kg, Gabriel Dossen (75kg). All of these lads can qualify and win medals."
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The Rio Games four years ago were a major disappointment for Ireland as Katie Taylor, Michael Conlan, Joe Ward and Paddy Barnes all came in hotly tipped to medal but were eliminated by the quarter-final stage. All four subsequently turned professional.
Conlan's loss to Russian Vladimir Nikitin sparked the most controversy, and was instrumental in AIBA carrying out an investigation - which found no evidence of fights being fixed - and the IOC barring all 36 referees and judges from the 2016 Games from officiating in Tokyo.
Carruth believes that both London 2012 gold medallist Taylor, who lost a split-decision to Finn Mira Potkonen, and Joe Ward - beaten 2-1 after points deductions against Carlos Mina - were also extremely poorly treated in Brazil.
"They say Brazil was our worst Olympics but I'm sure there were Olympic games where we didn't even win fights," he said.
"If you look at Katie Taylor's fight, Michael Conlan's fight, Joe Ward's fight...
"Joe Ward got two public warnings at an Olympic games, which is crazy from any referee.
"Katie Taylor's fight, I felt she clearly won that fight and won three of the four rounds. They didn't give her a chance to defend her title."
The IOC has taken over the responsibilty for organising boxing at this year's Games after the suspension of AIBA due to governance issues.
Carruth believes that the IOC will have no choice but to recruit some members of the world amateur boxing body for their expertise but hopes higher standards of refereeing and judging will prevail.
"They can't just let someone from another sport come in and try to run boxing," he said. "It's like asking the boxing officials to look after the gymnastics. They wouldn't be able to do it.
"Obviously there are going to have to be people from IABA that they, I'm going to use a big word here, trust more to be honest, reliable and consistent with judging.
"If they get the right combination there it's going to be a good Olympics."
