Gavin misses Olympic weigh-in

BRITAIN’S hopes of a gold medal in boxing suffered a knockout blow when their world lightweight champion, Frankie Gavin, failed to make the 60kg limit on the eve of the weigh-in.

Shattered Frankie Gavin, who was born in England of Irish parentage (Tipperary and Dublin), flew home to Birmingham with his Olympic dream in tatters as British boxing chiefs promised to launch an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his failure to make the weight, for which he was a reported 1.2kg over.

While the world champion and those around him were devastated it came as no surprise because he looked a very big lightweight when he won the world title in Chicago last October to install himself as a gold medal favourite for Beijing.