They could have the best chances of the U.S. boxers at the Paris Olympics to bring home medals. Each took a difficult path to get there.
There was a time when the U.S. dominated Olympic boxing. In the three Summer Games the Americans took part in between 1976 and 1988, U.S. fighters made the podium in 26 of 35 divisions, winning 17 gold medals. Among the boxers who won Olympic titles, then went on to win world championships as professionals, were Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael and Leon Spinks and Pernell Whitaker. But lately? Not so much. The U.S. has won only 10 medals since 2004 — or one fewer than it won in 1984 alone.
Now that I’m older, I’m more mature. Everything I went through, I feel like it kind of prepared me and I feel like this is my moment now.” Harvey, who will compete at 57 kilograms in Paris, was pushed into boxing by Daryl Davis, a former football coach who thought Harvey was too small for the gridiron but knew he was pretty good at fighting. “He knew that I got into a lot of fights growing up,” Harvey said.
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