Blogging live from the 2008 Summer Olympics Games in Beijing PEKIN China.
Light heavy-weight:
Chinese Zhang Xiaoping wins gold after beating Irish man Kenny Egan who thought that the score didn’t reflect the true result of the event (11-7).
Kenny’s complain is one of the hundreds presented and discussed by the IOC (international Olympic committee) who suspects bribery and “corrupted” judges.
Light flyweight:
World champion zou Shiming smashed Mongolian Serdamba Purevdorj whose coach threw the towel declaring forfeit in the 2nd round; the Mongolian fighter suffered from a shoulder injury that required him to admit defeat. Even Zou didn’t bet on such an easy final game. Before Serdamba’s forfeit, the score was 1-0.
Bantamweight:
Badar-Uugan Enkhbat faced Cuba’s Yankiel Leon in what looked like an easy final game for the Mongolian fighter. In the end of the rounds, the count settled at 16-5. Badar is the silver medalist of the world championship, and just got into the National books; he’s the 1st Mongolian to win a gold medal in boxing.
Lightweight:
Frenchman Daouda Sow was hammered by Alexi Tichshenko: 11-9.
The Russia’s fighter was Athens’s 2004 featherweight champion, and just became the 4th boxer in history to earn gold medals in 2 different classes.
Welterweight:
Kazakhstan’s Bakhyt Sarsekbayev was able pass-by the Cuban Carlos Banteaux, and became the Olympic champion. Carlos was Cuba’s last chance to win a title knowing that the Southern country managed to win at least 1 gold medal in every Olympic that it took part of, except for Mexico’s 1968
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