LONDON (Reuters) - Brazil lost their main hope of winning boxing gold at the London Games on Saturday when world amateur light-welterweight champion Everton dos Santos Lopes was eliminated in his opening bout by Beijing bronze medalist Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo of Cuba. Lopes became the first Brazilian to win a world championship title last year but he was comprehensively outboxed and outsmarted by the taller, quicker Cuban, who picked him off with sharp one-two combinations to take the first round by a point and the second by three. ...
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