Boxing

Boxing:Trio of women cap golden day for sport
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - With panache, power and proficiency, Katie Taylor,
Claressa Shields and Nicola Adams claimed the first women's Olympic boxing
titles to cap an absorbing tournament that surprised many and left their
male counterparts in the shade.
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Boxing Maths and Aftermaths: Why Similar Scores Are A Mean System
NPR (blog)
Four years ago, Irish boxer Paddy Barnes lost to China's Zou Shiming by a
score of 15-0 in Beijing. Today in London, Barnes fought his way back into
their match to tie Zou at 15-15 — but he still lost. Barnes accepted the
decision, but the result ...
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Boxing: Adams shuns big time for chicken dinners
Yahoo! Sports
LONDON (Reuters) - As the first woman to lift an Olympic boxing title,
Briton Nicola Adams is about to face a plethora of media attention, fan
adulation and professional contract offers, but the modest flyweight only
has eyes for the simple life. The ...
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Striking a Blow for Ireland
New York Times
BRAY, Ireland — For the Irish, Katie Taylor is more than a great athlete
sprung from the native soil; people speak of her as if she has sprung from
themselves, for she seems everyone's sister, their daughter, their friend.
She is the epitome of the ...
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Women's boxing proves popular at the London Olympics
Washington Post
Aug. 10, 2012 - The US, Ireland and Britain celebrated the fighters who
took home the first Olympic boxing gold medals for women. The event proved
popular, and some suggested adding more weight classes to the competition
in the future. (/Associated ...
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Column: Boxer: 'I might go into history books.'
ESPN
LONDON -- She has a boxer's story: a troubled childhood, a brother in
prison, a father who took up the sport to stay out of trouble yet couldn't
watch her fight at the Olympics because of a criminal record of his own.
Claressa Shields walked into the ...
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Life is a hard knock for Manipur's boxers
The Hindu
Inspired by the likes of Mary Kom and Dingko Singh, teenaged boxers from
Manipur's villages travel at the crack of dawn to the capital city of
Imphal to train for a few hours at one of the three government run
institutions before their schools begin ...
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Boxing: Taylor strikes blow for her country and sport
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - Katie Taylor struck a blow for herself, her country and
her sport with victory in the women's lightweight boxing final at the
London Olympics on Thursday. Women's boxing, a demonstration sport as far
back as the 1904 St Louis Games, ...
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The Rhythms Of The Boxing Ring - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan ...
By Andrew Sullivan
We have also tried to catch those moments, so far from the oracular
pronouncements of the opening, in which Nabokov mimics the brusque
street-talk of the boxing fan or commentator, mixing his voice with the
voices of the crowd – a ...
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Errol Spence loss overturned in boxing - ESPN
A few hours after the U.S. men's boxing team thought it was done at the
Olympics, amateur boxing's governing body decided Errol Spence deserved to
fight on.
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