JOE WARD'S hopes of making the London 2012 Olympics came to a crushing end after he was controversially eliminated by Turkish light-heavyweight Bahram Muzaffer in Turkey yesterday. Muzaffer, who was beaten by Ken Egan at the 2008 Olympic Games, was hande
LISA Kearney has become Ireland's latest Olympic qualifier and the first ever in women's judo, writes Cliona Foley.The tiny Belfast judoka, who weighs only seven and a half stone, competes in the Under-48kg category and was knocked out in the second roun
ADAM NOLAN produced a magnificent display of counter-punching to book his ticket for the London Games at the AIBA European Olympic qualifiers in Trabzon yesterday.The Irish southpaw, repeatedly finding the target with his raking left, punched out an emph
Three days before he entered the ring in the Chamsil Students' Gynasium in Seoul to contest the 1988 Olympic light-middleweight final against Park Si-Hun, Roy Jones Junior was clear about the task that confronted him. Here's what he told reporters. "I kn
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