After headguards, vests next on Olympic hit list


  • Boxing
  • Sunday, 24 Jul 2016

LONDON (Reuters) - Male boxers will step into the ring without headguards at the Rio Olympics for the first time since the 1980 Moscow Games, and their vests could be next on the hit list.

With the lines between amateur and professional increasingly blurred, another distinctive difference between the codes -- the red or blue singlets worn by Olympic boxers -- is being questioned.

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