Chinese guaranteed three Olympic boxing medals
Light-flyweight Zou Shiming and light-heavyweight Zhang Xiaoping won semifinal places on a wild night Tuesday to give China a tally of three Olympic boxing medals since they picked up their first in 2004.
Olympic biting boxer won’t face more punishment
Dzhakhon Kurbanov, the light heavyweight from Tajikistan who bit his opponent on the shoulder in a quarterfinal bout, won’t face additional sanctions or suspension by the International Boxing Association.
Fight to clean up boxing needs few more rounds
Boxing chief Wu Ching-Kuo’s fight to make his sport a respectable member of the Olympic family is not won yet, according to critics of the scoring at the Beijing competition.
Andrade loses; Americans down to one fighter
World welterweight champion Demetrius Andrade sealed the U.S. team’s worst-ever Olympic boxing performance when he lost 11-9 to South Korea’s Kim Jungjoo in his quarterfinal bout on Sunday.
Tony Jeffries gets boxing semi-final shot
Sunderland’s Tony Jeffries stormed into the semi-finals of the light-heavyweight class to guarantee Britain’s second boxing medal with a 10-2 win over Hungary’s Imre Szello.
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