Boxing: Tokyo treated to flair and flamboyance of Cuban boxing masterclass


  • Boxing
  • Sunday, 08 Aug 2021

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Boxing - Men's Super Heavyweight - Final - Kokugikan Arena - Tokyo, Japan - August 8, 2021. Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan in action against Richard Torrez of the United States REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

TOKYO (Reuters) - With four gold medals from a team of just seven fighters, Cuba put on another show of flair and Olympic flamboyance in Tokyo, reminding the world of its decades of dominance in a boxing contest where no other country came close.

The big-hitters of Havana won all their gold-medal matches, outclassing rivals with precision, power and composure to top the boxing medals table with the best Cuban performance since their five golds at the 2004 Athens Games.

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