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This week’s roundup also features the 1948 London Olympics, Mike Atherton’s leg spin and a dancing dartist
1) The Olympic boxing is in full swing, so let’s have a look back to the memorable 1988 edition. Here’s the great Roy Jones Jr losing his gold medal fight to Park Si-hun in a robbery so outrageous that he considered quitting the game and here’s Park explaining the impact of the verdict on his life; here’s Lennox Lewis fighting Riddick Bowe in the super-heavyweight gold medal match and here are the two of them exchanging words in the ring immediately after Bowe beat Evander Holyfield to become undisputed champion of the world; here’s Chun Jin-Chil mistaking the bell in another ring for the bell in his, when his opponent, Todd Foster did not, and here’s the consequent rematch.
2) Maradona, Platini, Zico, Falcão, Rummenigge, Elkjær, Socrates, Boniek – rarely, if ever, has a league boasted as many of the world’s best players as Serie A did in 1984-85. Just look at them! Continue reading...