McCloskey two wins from Olympics

PAUL McCLOSKEY is just two fights away from the Olympics after another resounding win at the qualifying tournament in Warsaw last night where he overwhelmed the highly rated Croatian, Borna Katalinic 40-19 to advance to the quarter-finals.

The 24 years old Derry light welterweight is in the toughest division of all and, despite his big win (37-13) over the Czech, Martin Halas, on Tuesday, and yesterday’s victory, still has difficult time ahead of him. He now meets the Greek representative in the quarter-finals and must get through to the final to gain qualification with only the finalists going through.

Having said that, on current form he appears to have an outstanding chance of joining Limerick southpaw, Andy Lee, on the plane to Athens next August.