The subsequent Olympic Video games, at all times an awesome, certainly unmissable spectacle each 4 years, will quickly be right here, and for boxing followers, Paris 2024 will show particularly fascinating. It is because, fairly shockingly and depressingly, boxing might not stay a fixture at The Video games for too lengthy. After all, all of us hope sanity will prevail, with boxing staying put, however that is within the arms of the assorted powers that be. We should wait and see.
Concerning who will likely be combating for Nice Britain in Paris, France, on the finish of the month, the six boxers have been formally named by Staff GB. They’re as follows:
Scrumptious Orie – tremendous heavyweight
Pat Brown – heavyweight
Lewis Richardson – mild middleweight
Chantelle Reid – middleweight
Rosie Eccles – welterweight
Charley Davison – bantamweight.
There may be some very good boxing expertise right here, and we British followers will likely be tuning in and rooting for all six. Three males, three girls, and hopefully six medals. It will be nothing in need of unbelievable if all six boxers managed to deliver house a medal, whereas it could be astronomical if six gold medals have been received.
The star of the six is the colorfully named Scrumptious Orie, and the gifted heavyweight who received gold on the Commonwealth Video games is checked out as a fighter with an actual likelihood of successful a medal, possibly a gold. Talking on behalf of his fellow Brits, Orie mentioned, “We have now all labored so laborious to qualify, however the job just isn’t but completed, and I’m persevering with to work laborious for the largest stage, that of Paris, France.”
It will likely be fascinating to see which boxers symbolize the opposite international locations competing in Paris. In whole, 124 male boxers and 124 feminine boxers will compete on the Video games, with seven weight lessons for males and 6 for ladies. Boxing will get underway in Paris on July twenty seventh, with the ultimate happening on August tenth, a Saturday.
Over time, certainly many years, some nice boxing expertise has received medals on the Olympics, adopted by an awesome professional profession. Will we see the subsequent Lennox Lewis, the subsequent Anthony Joshua, the subsequent Nicola Adams, the subsequent James DeGale, the subsequent Lauren Value, the subsequent Chris Finnegan, as one other British boxer comes house, this time from France, a hero in August?
