British team boxer emotionally torn and struggling with depression after robbery at 2024 Olympics

DELICIOUS ORIE is emotionally torn and still struggling with the depression that hit him after he was robbed by the Olympic boxing jury.

Orie has still not recovered from the intense sense of injustice he felt in Paris last month.

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DJ, as he likes to be called, won gold at the Commonwealth Games and the European Championship.

And the British super heavyweight was favourite to become Olympic champion.

The smell of sewage in the Seine may have been unpleasant, but in the boxing arena the stench was much worse.

The XY chromosome controversy between Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting (who were allowed to compete in the women’s event despite earlier failed gender tests) and some disturbing scorecards from the judges were responsible for this.

Orie was not at his best in his fight with Davit Chaloyan, but still got the first round win from all five judges.

The second and third rounds were a lot more exciting, but DJ and his team were stunned when they lost 3-2.

Orie is upset and has difficulty processing the painful defeat against the Armenian.

When I visited Orie this week, while he was on holiday in Thailand with his parents, he felt comfortable getting something off his chest.

Even though he was 5,000 miles away, I could feel his pain when he said, “It will take a long time for what happened to me in Paris to get out of my system.

“I just can’t stop thinking about it.

“If I know my Olympic boxing history, I know that this has happened to much better fighters than me. Roy Jones Jr. in Seoul and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Atlanta are the most famous victims.

“But I couldn’t believe it when my opponent raised his hand. I felt sick, like I had taken a low blow from Mike Tyson.

“It took eight years of hard preparation to win gold, and then all my dreams were shattered.

“I have never suffered from depression before in my life. I just can’t get it out of my head and it feels like my whole world has collapsed.

“I have taken a lot of knocks as an athlete, fallen during sparring and got quite injured.

I couldn’t believe it when my opponent raised his hand. I felt sick, like I had taken a low blow from Mike Tyson.

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“But this is by far the worst thing I’ve ever had to go through. Nothing has hurt me as much as this.”

Orie is 27 and does not want to remain an amateur for another four years in an attempt to reach the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Not least because it is uncertain whether boxing will also be on the list in 2028.

He could turn pro, or quit boxing altogether and rely on his first-class economics degree from Aston University to support himself.

Now that DJ hasn’t won an Olympic medal, he can’t count on being offered a lucrative promotional contract to make money.

He’s certainly not too old to leave the amateurs: Joe Joyce, the silver medallist at the 2016 Olympics, only turned pro when he was 32 and was interim WBO heavyweight world champion.

Orie isn’t a fighter with a lot of balls, but with his brains and colourful background (his mother is Russian and his father Nigerian) he would be a welcome addition to the talented and highly competitive British heavyweight scene.