Red Faces and a Gold Medal Internal Politics Threaten to Spoil Olympic Boxing Glory for James Degale, Reports Alan Campbell
Sunday Herald › September 01, 2008
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FEW amateur sports have the same capacity for skullduggery as boxing, and, true to form, the sport has provided most of the ructions in an otherwise smooth and plain sailing Olympics for the rest of Team GB.
There was, though, a happy ending for Terry Edwards' squad when one of his least fancied fighters, James DeGale, won Britain's 19th, and almost certainly last, gold medal in Beijing's Workers Gymnasium last night.See the full content of this document
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Red Faces and a Gold Medal Internal Politics Threaten to Spoil Olympic Boxing Glory for James Degale, Reports Alan Campbell
The 22-year-old middleweight from London outpointed Cuba's Emilio Correa in a bar-room brawl of a fight which had more wrestling in it than boxing.
The 16...See the full content of this document
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