The tournament is now at the business end of the week. Five of the team were boxing for qualification spots today. Notting Hill’s James DeGale and Birmingham’s Khalid Yafai realised their Olympic dreams with sound performances. Billy Joe Saunders and Stephen Smith must win on Saturday to qualify having lost and been tactically withdrawn respectively today. Danny Price came off second best and must now refocus on the final qualifier in Athens (6-13th April) if he is to join his six team mates in Beijing. Hopefully that six will become eight on Saturday. This team is still riding high and raising the bar with each tournament.
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