The Montenegrin boxing team was left without a visa at the first Olympic qualification tournament in the Italian town of Busto Arsici, as captain Petar Marčić was also stopped in the second fight of the category up to 80 kilograms.
Better on points was the current champion of Europe under 22 years of age, the Frenchman Jojerlin Cezar, who impressed with boxing in November at the championship in Budva and the final match in "Morača" in Podgorica.
Our selecki will have a new chance in Thailand in May, where the best young boxer in Europe, Petar Liješević, will most likely get the opportunity in Bangkok.
In the small town near Milan, Busto Arsicija, Marčić was the only one of our three hopefuls to record a victory, because Bojana Gojković was defeated at the start by the trophy-winning and five years older Turkish woman Esra Jildiz, and Stefan Savković was stopped in the category up to 70 kilograms by disputed referee decisions - 3 :2 in a match with a boxer from Belgium..
"Unbelievable, the Olympic tournament and there are no cameras or the possibility of appeal for independent judges to review the video and change the decisions when the result is 3:2. Well, that has been the practice for a long time and in tournaments of an incomparably lower rank", coach NIkola Ružić protested in vain.
Only Gojković and Savković will have a second chance, captain Marčić most likely not, because Liješević also deserved the opportunity to try to realize his Olympic dream and qualify for the Olympics in Paris.
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