Team Philippines will have four boxers in the Tokyo Olympics later this year, and with strength in this relatively big number, the Association of Boxing Alliance in the Philippines (Abap) has all the confidence that the country’s century-old chase for its first Games gold medal will finally end.
Irish Magno and Eumir Marcial qualified for Tokyo via the Asia Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan, last year while Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam grabbed Olympic spots by virtue of their rankings in Asia as the Philippines, from having just one representative in the ring in Rio de Janeiro 2016, believes it has more than a solid shot in Japan.
This, despite the…
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