New Zealand boxers have parried away the turmoil caused by wrongly calibrated scales at the official Commonwealth Games weigh in, saying they knew straight away they were faulty.
Boxers from around the world were wrongly measured as overweight - many having to run around the athletes' village or jump into a sauna to shed the kilos.
But New Zealand knew exactly how heavy its fighters were, so when lightweight Angus Donaldson weighed in heavier they did not sweat on it.
"We realised it was their problem, not ours - we were OK," manager Billy Meehan said.
Meehan said he had never seen such a farce.
"Scales are normally one of the first things sorted out. It was a bit of a shock, but they realised the scales weren't working."
The official weigh-in is used to put boxers into their weight class for the Games.
It has now been abandoned, the first round draws have been delayed, and boxers must now remain in the classes in which they were nominated.
The risk with that approach is if a boxer weighs in heavy for their nominated class on the day of their fights, they will be disqualified.
If they had weighed in heavy on correctly calibrated scales today they would still have been able to fight in a different class at the Games.
"It's frustrating for the boxers, if they don't make the weight they're out of the competition," Meehan said.
"They've told us the scales will be correctly calibrated from tomorrow."
Australia's assistant coach Don Abnett told AAP he had two boxers who went off to lose weight, when they did not have to.
"Two of them went on and the scales said they were 700 grams overweight so they had go and sweat it off," he said.
"But when they got back it then said they were two kilos heavier than before!
"It is ridiculous, and now we have boys who have lost too much weight, which is not good."
Games officials realised something was amiss when a large number of fighters were overweight, and decided to act after irate coaches demanded to have the scales checked.
A 50kg weight then was brought up from the gym at the athletes' village and, when placed on the scales, measured at 51.4kg.
