One sport I will be watching with interest is boxing.
For a number of reasons.
I love boxing. It's one of the first sports I ever watched live. Crammed in the old, smoke filled, Paul Sauve Arena and its collection of assorted characters, my father would take my brother and I to watch local fights. In these politically correct, health paranoia days, venues like Paul Sauve are sadly long gone.
Olympic boxing is one of the original sports. I tend to prefer watching the classics.
In London, boxing has an interesting plot in that the Cubans failed to win a gold medal (7 medals) in Beijing and the United States won just one medal. Olympic boxing as you should know, has been the net dominant domain of the United States, and since 1972 Cuba.
We talk a lot about pro teams and nations that dominate sports and Cuba's dominance of boxing is right up there with the best of them.
It will be interesting to see if both of these boxing powerhouses get back to their usual winning ways.
Here's a link to the all-time medals table. USA, Cuba and Italy lead in terms of gold medals.
Canada for its part, has a solid and proud boxing tradition at the Olympics. Let's see how they do.
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