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TOKYO, July 2 – Japan escaped from being shut out from Olympic boxing competition as light flyweight Toshiyuki Igarashi has got an official nod for next monthfs Athens Games following the announcement in May of a withdrawal of a Pakistani boxer due to an injury, amateur boxing officials said Thursday.
According to the officials, the 20-year-old Tokyo University of Agriculture student, who had failed to qualify for the Olympics as he lost in the semifinals in the final Asian zone Olympic qualifiers held in Pakistani capital of Karachi early in May, replaced the Pakistani.
After three Asian zone Olympic qualifiers, none of the eight Japanese fighters was able to obtain an Olympic ticket.
Japan has never failed to compete in the Olympic boxing ever since the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam to the exclusion of the Olympics Japan did not enter. |
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