Afghan boxers bow Out
NZPA-Reuter I Esmail Mohamad, the last of three Afghans who came to fight at rhe Moscow Games., made the briefest of appearances in the boxing tournament on Thursday. Mohamad. politely received by the near-capacity crowd in the Olympic indoor stadium, was Counted out on his feet in the first round of his opening featherweight bout against the East German, Rudi Fink. Afghanistan, the country at the centre of the Olympic boycott controversy ’ over. Soviet military intervention,
I is represented at Moscow ■ only by boxers and wrestlers. Mohamad’s defeat, after being punched at will by Fink, meant that none of the . Afghan boxers won a bout. Benin’s Barghelemy Adoukonou beat Sambo, of the Malagasy Republic, who was disqualified for illegal use of the head. Cuba and the Soviet Union maintained their unbeaten records as the last of the weight divisions were reduced to Hie round before the quarter-finals. The heavyweights will make their first appearance
‘today, 'with Cuba’s Teofiloi Stevenson launching the i defence of the title he has) ■ won at the last two Games.) • His first opponent is Ni-' geria’s Solomon Ataga.
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