Saturday, 4 August 2012

Brazil loses gold medal hope Lopes (Reuters)

Brazil's Everton dos Santos Lopes (R) and Cuba's Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (L) wait for the decision after their Men's Light Welter (64kg) Round of 16 boxing match during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 4, 2012. Sotolongo won the fight. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

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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