Summer Olympian

While your watching the your favorite athlete at the Beijing Olympics this year the cameras will inevitably flash to his/her nervous parents. Maybe one of them has left their seat out of anxiety, maybe one has their eyes covered, or maybe they’re…

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The Wall Street Journal has had the most thoughtful, insightful, and interesting Beijing Olympics coverage of any English language news source. Their nonpareil work continued today with this excellent Page One article about the Puerto Rican…

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Boxing’s second (and final) Americas Qualifier got started on Friday in Guatemala City, Guatemala with three American pugilists aiming to join their eight already-qualified teammates in Beijing.  In their first bout of the tourney middleweight Shawn Estrada picked up a decisive…

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A 58-year-old CEO of a yacht building company, a Romany Gypsy proudly fighting off lingering stereotypes and prejudices, a 17-year-old scion of American cycling royalty, and a 13-year-old desperate to get a tattoo. What do they all…

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It wasn’t a great Final Day at the Americas Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament for Team U.S.A. Boxers. No Americans claimed gold medals at the competition and only three of Team U.S.A.’s six boxers qualified for Beijing. The remaining three must attempt to…

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Brooklyn’s Sadam Ali became the first Team U.S.A. boxer to qualify for the Beijing Olympics via the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Qualifying Tournament. (Five American boxers had already qualified during the 2007 World Championship competition.) Ali was the only Team U.S.A. fighter…

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It’s judgment day in Trinidad for America’s half-dozen undefeated pugilists. All six will put their Beijing hopes on the line today. If they win they are off to China, if they lose they must travel to Guatemala City next month and start…

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Christopher Downs was the only American boxer in action on Friday at the Olympic Qualifying tournament. His match was so anticipated and so epic that it had to be the last bout of the day. The Main Event. His opponent was Cuban…

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The six-man strong U.S. Boxing contingent has had a successful first three days at the Olympic Boxing Qualifiers held in Trinidad…

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