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Cuba lose super-heavyweight Alfonso

BEIJING
Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:58pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Super-heavyweight Robert Alfonso became the first Cuban to bow out of the Olympic boxing competition when he was outpointed by Ukraine's Vyacheslav Glazkov on Wednesday.

Alfonso, who looked sluggish on his way to a 5-3 points defeat, leaves the superpower of amateur boxing with nine boxers out of 10 going into the second round, which starts on Thursday.

(Reporting by Patrick Vignal, Editing by Jeremy Laurence)


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