Frankie Gavin leaves the Olympics

Even before the competition starts, our most promising of young hopefuls Frankie Gavin is leaving the Olympics. This superb boxer with a quality of performance which made him a certainty for a medal ~ probably a gold ~ has received a knock-down punch without even getting in the ring.

And the problem is not drugs, nor fitness but the simplest of things ~ getting his weight right for the competition.

He has weighed in too heavy for the division!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ask you.....can you believe this? We send an athlete, a brilliant boxer to the Games and the coaching staff can't even enter him for the appropriate weight devision and/or can't prepare him to fight at that weight.

The mind boggles!!!!!!!!!!