One possible role model for young men is Olympic boxing gold medallist James Degalle, who attended to offer his support.
The latest winner is Nicola Adams, from Leeds, who became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
An Iraqi has never won one of the 841 total Olympic boxing medals despite their claim of boxing as the Ancient Sumerians created carvings depicting boxers in 3000 BC.
The way Khan came out punching had those in red, white and blue believing they could be about to see one of the biggest shocks in Olympic boxing history.
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ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- British teenager Amir Khan became the youngest Olympic boxing medalist in over 50 years when he demolished South Korea's Baik Jong-sub in the first round on Tuesday to storm through to the semifinals.
Selection has greater importance with the London Games less than two years away with a good performance leaving the three women in pole position to gain the three places available in the Great Britain Olympic boxing team for 2012.
Roach's cramped Hollywood gym, the Wild Card, is now a boxing mecca, and the trainer enjoys the trappings of success a slick Mercedes in the garage, the ability to pamper his mother and a flattering appointment as a U.S. Olympic boxing team coach.
As a child, Pistorius competed in water polo, cricket, tennis, triathlons and Olympic wrestling and boxing, before he smashed his knee while playing rugby at the age of 16.
Despite his difficult start to life, Pistorius was keen on sport from an early age and competed in waterpolo, cricket, tennis, triathlons and Olympic wrestling and boxing before he smashed his knee while playing rugby at the age of 16.
Women's boxing made its Olympic debut Sunday with a round of 16 matches in each of the three weight divisions.
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Hunt told CNN that guidelines for the Association of Boxing Commissions are similar to the International Olympic Committee's policy that allows transsexuals to compete in Olympic games.
The latest, launched on September 3rd, features Katarina Witt, East Germany's former Olympic ice-skating champion and Henry Maske, a boxing world champion.
Shields's win came one day after the U.S. men's boxing team endured its first medal shutout in Olympic history, failing to send a single member of its nine-man squad into the semifinals here.
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Moynihan said the sports would need guarantees that special lanes reserved for Olympic traffic from the Olympic Park in east London would be in place to speed journeys to Wembley, after boxing rejected the same move.
Many people think that this is a new Olympic sport for women and know little if anything about the fact that women's boxing has a history that stretches back to the 18th century in many parts of the world.
Unlike his Olympic successor, Britain's Sydney 2000 champion Audley Harrison, he has a formidable record in professional boxing, winning 58 of his 61 fights -- 51 by knockout.
It wasn't until 1986 that boxing was allowed again after authorities realized its many weight classes could aid the country's pursuit of Olympic medals.
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