Review praise for boxing programme

KENNY EGAN’S silver medal and bronze medals for Paddy Barnes and Darren Sutherland earned boxing top billing in the Olympic Review.

“The strongest output of the Beijing cycle in Olympic terms has been the demonstration of ‘what good looks like’ within the boxing programme,” the report states.

“This programme has delivered not only success within the Olympic sphere but has subsequently followed up with more medals at world junior and European championships and suggests its strengths are systematic and structural, consistent and repeatable.