Egan’s Olympic dream back on

LAST year Kenneth Egan was one of the favourites to qualify for the Beijing Olympics but he lost an excellent opportunity at the world championships in Chicago and missed out on another chance in Pescara six weeks ago but he is back on track again, writes Brendan Mooney.

Today he will join four other Irish boxers in the quarter-finals of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens, all of whom are bidding for places alongside light flyweight Paddy Barnes and bantamweight John Joe Nevin in Beijing.

“It was just a little ramp on the road to Beijing and now I am back on track again,” he said last night after an impressive 23-14 victory over the Italian light heavyweight, Allesandro Sinacore.