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Photo By Alex Nicodim/Sportsfile via Getty Images 2019 Pan-American and world bronze medalist Rashida Ellis takes the women’s lightweight spot. Ellis, whose brother Rashidi is a fast-rising welterweight prospect, also won the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and is ranked 12th in the world at the weight. “Qualifying for the Olympics has been one of my deepest dreams,” mentioned Ellis. “I never doubt my ability. I have stopped being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right. So, I embrace my mistakes and learn from them, as my mistakes have helped me ...

Boxer fails to qualify for the Olympics Boxer fails to qualify for the Olympics Share Leemisa Thuseho LESOTHO’S last-ditch effort to send boxers to the Olympics in July and August this year came to naught after the country’s top ranked boxer Arena Pakela came out fourth in continental rankings. Pakela was Lesotho’s last hope for Olympics qualification in boxing after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Boxing Task Force (BTF) last month announced that boxing qualifications will be based on boxers’ world and continental rankings. However, Pakela (75 kg) was ranked fourth o...

Americas Olympic boxing qualifier cancelled because of COVID-19 crisis Friday, 16 April 2021 The Americas boxing qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been cancelled due to concerns coronavirus-related travel restrictions would stop some athletes reaching Buenos Aires to take part. Argentina's capital was due to host the qualification tournament from May 10 to 16. Tighter restrictions put in place in areas across the Americas in response to rising coronavirus cases and new variants have made hosting the competition too much of a logistical challenge, according to the International Olympi...

Sandy Ryan can look to the future Her hopes for the Tokyo Olympics were extinguished at the stroke of a pen. But now Sandy Ryan will move forward AFTER nine years on the GB squad, it’s a great pity that Sandy Ryan’s quest for an Olympic place this year ended not in a contest but with an administrative decision. Ryan had been training, focusing and working towards selection for the final World qualification event, that had been due to take place later this year. But the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the Olympics and their qualifiers into such disarray that the Boxing Task Force had to pu...

Date set for European Olympic qualification event The dates and location have been announced for the rescheduled European Olympic qualification event THE dates for the European Olympic qualification event have now been set. The tournament will pick up from where it left off when it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic last year. It will be held from June 4-8 in Paris. After restructuring the process, the Boxing Task Force, that administers the Olympic tournament, said it selected Paris “as part of its initial commitment to organise its events in the host countries of recent or upco...