Lee stays in hunt for Olympics

LIMERICK’S Andy Lee, a former Irish Examiner/TV3 national junior sports star, takes on England’s Commonwealth Games gold medallist Darren Barker in the last 16 of the European Senior Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia today.

Lee, who defeated his Geogian opponent David Tsiklauri on Friday, is Ireland’s sole remaining competitor after Conor Ahern and Paul Hyland were both defeated yesterday.

Hyland (Fly) lost to Fuad Aslanov of Azerbaijan 47 to 33. Ahern (Light Fly) was stopped by his Italian opponent Alfonso Pinto in the third round under the 20 point rule.

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