Champs face fight to reach Olympics

IRELAND’S two newly crowned European champions, Ray Moylette and Joe Ward, are still not guaranteed a shot at Olympic qualification.

They will have to go through a mouth watering Open Senior tournament at the National Stadium on August 10-12 to gain selection for the World Championships in Baku in September which is the first of the Olympic qualification tournaments.

And those who fail to qualify in Azerbaijan will have to go through next year’s national championships to make the team for the only remaining European qualifying tournament, which takes place next March.