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By Ryan Shepard
Jun 14, 2021
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 12: Shakur Stevenson (R) punches Jeremiah Nakathila during their WBO junior lightweight interim title fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on June 12, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stevenson won the vacant title by unanimous decision.
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As the 2021 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team heads to Tokyo, Japan, it is nice to look back at the stars that participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On the women s side,
Claressa Shields brought home her second consecutive gold medal. Meanwhile,
Nico Hernández brought home a bronze medal in the men s light flyweight division. Rounding out the U.S. Olympic Boxing Team s success,
Thursday, 21 January 2021
USA Boxing is holding a training camp in preparation for this year s Olympics in Tokyo in an abandoned department store.
National team boxers have been unable to use the facilities at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center at Colorado Springs since March.
This is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which also forced the postponement of the Olympics from 2020 to July 23 to August 8 2021.
In order to adequately prepare for the Games, USA Boxing staff moved training equipment into a department store in Colorado Springs.
Boxers and coaches are being housed at the nearby Hotel Eleganté. After spending most of 2020 waiting to be allowed entry back into our national gym at the Colorado Springs Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, it was time that we took matters into our own hands and established a training space that can properly accommodate our team’s training needs, said USA Boxing high performance director Matt Johnson.