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On This Day: August 20th

2008: The late Darren Sutherland comfortably defeated Venezuela’s Alfonso Blanco (11:1) to guarantee bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the

2012: Mick Conlan won a brilliant bronze at the London Olympics. The Belfast flyweight defeated Frenchman Nordine Oubaali (22-18) in

By Bernard O’Neill – IABA Press Officer Ireland brought an eight-strong squad to the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, their second time

1949: Mullingar’s Maxie McCullagh became the first Irish boxer to win a European gold outside of Ireland when he took