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LIVE BLOG Olympic boxing – Day Eight

John Dennen is ringside at Rio Centro for the Olympic boxing tournament

John Dennen

12th August, 2016

LIVE BLOG Olympic boxing – Day Eight
Donnelly is a former Olympian Action Images/Peter Cziborra

WE’RE into the eighth day of competition at the Olympic boxing tournament. In the morning session Ireland’s Brendan Irvine begins his campaign at 52kgs, taking on Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan.

At 69kgs his team-mate Steven Donnelly takes on the World gold medallist, Morocco’s Mohammed Rabii.

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