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PIC: Ireland and Cuba's reliance on boxing medals at Olympics is pretty clear

Tonight on Off The Ball, Ger will be chatting to journalist and Boxing Writers Association of Ame...
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17.24 24 Jun 2015


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PIC: Ireland and Cuba's reliance on boxing medals at Olympics is pretty clear

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Tonight on Off The Ball, Ger will be chatting to journalist and Boxing Writers Association of America member Brin-Jonathan Butler about the contents of his new book, The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba.

Boxing is clearly a popular sport in Cuba given the number of Olympic champions they have produced - 34 gold medallists in all from a total of 67 gold, medal and bronzes at Summer Olympics.

Ireland, of course, have done rather well at boxing when it comes to Olympics and indeed, percentage-wise the number of medals won at Summer Games' is heavily reliant on the sport ...

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