Frenchman puts teary Beijing exit behind him


LONDON (Reuters) - Four years after leaving Beijing in tears when a last-minute warning for holding cost him a shot at a gold medal, France's Alexis Vastine was just happy to be back in an Olympic ring on Sunday.

The centre of a heated dispute described as "a murder" by France's head coach in 2008, the experienced 25-year-old dispatched tidy German fighter Patrick Wojcicki in much calmer fashion on Day Two of the Olympics at London's boxing arena.

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