Thursday, 2 August 2012

Boxing: Britain's Ogogo shocks gold medal favorite (Reuters)

Britain's Anthony Ogogo celebrates winning his match against the Ukraine's Ievgen Khytrov in the Men's Middle (75kg) Round of 16 boxing match during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 2, 2012 REUTERS/Murad Sezer

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Anthony Ogogo caused the first big boxing shock of the London Olympics on Thursday, upsetting the favorite for middleweight gold in front of an vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip. Ogogo, whose hopes of making it to his first Olympics were nearly ruined by a serious shoulder injury last year, became the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals after he beat Ukrainian world amateur champion Evhen Khytrov by the tightest of margins. ...




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