The British olympic Boxing team.

James DeGale can cause people problems with his reach and switch hitting ability so he could perhaps pick up a medal. Frankie Gavin aswell as he obviously picked up a gold at the Worlds and he's very quick on his feet and with his handspeed. Joe Murray was the first to qualify and used to spar alot with Khan I know, maybe he could have a chance aswell along with Price and possibly Jeffries.

 

Gavin, Price and Saunders have the best chance to medal IMHO.

 

Is Jeffries not a Light-Heavyweight ?

 

Well I only really know about Tony Jeffries, he has a burger van up here in sunderland he is a very dedicated boxer , a few of my mates have spared with him and say he is really athletic and accurate in the ring , i havent had the pleasure of sparring with him yet but hope I do soon! but he has a few weakness's which can be exploited but hopefully can be a outsider in these olympics

 

In the last Olympic cycle every member of this team has beaten an Olympic, a World or a European medal winnner. DeGale recently beat the Olympic and Val Barker winner from Athens. BJ Saunders roasted the red-hot Cuban. In the last ten months they have changed the way amateur boxing nations look at Britain. The team, as I said on yesterday's show, has been disgracefully ignored by the Olympic broadcaster.
And what I like best is that they have all told the lawyers and promoters and fight fixers to stick their 50 grand offers where the sun will never shine. The promoters have wheeled out the..."If you lose out there you will be stuck" line. Well, that was true but this mob can come back and get in the line for the funding that will become available for 2012. Lose out there and come back and make 50 grand a year as an amateur boxer. Not a bad option. But with Haye, Calzaghe, Hatton, Warren, Hobson, Hennessy and Audley's firm chasing the Olympic Eight there will not be any shortage of offers.
Adios.

 

well my...a fellow mackem!

 

makes you realise how big an achievment it was for Khan. he was only 17.

 

I'd be surprised if we dont get three medals or more from that lot.

As Gaz has already said Gavin, Price and Saunders are very impressive. And all the others have a least an outside chance. Its the best olympic boxing team I can remember us putting out.

 

I think the entire group has a decent chance of a medal. All are on hot form which is really important. But when you look at some of the guys who they will be facing the task looks a lot less simple. I think in all honesty we will be happy to get three bronze medals. Anything more and I will call it a great success.


Any idea on who will be broadcasting the fights?

Our captain David Price is a good figther and should have confidence going into the competition however he needs to be not drawn in with Timurziev or Cammarelle, I think he has the beating of the Cuban entry.

 

Yeah, it is the BBC. They have rights to the entire Olympics.

 

Hopefully that means that all of the boxing will be shown on BBC Interactive so we won't miss a thing .

I'll be keeping a close eye on the 8 British entries, aswell of course as the 5 Irish ones .