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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...



PIC: Ireland and Cuba's re...
Golf

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 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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