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!!!!!!!!!!
