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#OMG: British boxer refuses to wear silver medal 'It's a failure, I'm not going to celebrate it'

by Tuitealo

After Cuban boxer Arlen Lopez won the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing final on Wednesday at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, British boxer Benjamin Whittaker refused to place his silver medal on the podium claiming it was a failure. You don't win the silver, you lose the gold (...) It's a failure, I'm not going to celebrate it, said to the media the British boxer, who got the second place in the competition and was the bronze medalist of the last World Championship. Wednesday's final was a duel between two contrasting styles. The classic combination of footwork and power of Cuban punching against an unorthodox Whittaker who, cautious, invited him to move forward to surprise him on the counterattack. And while Arlen Lopez, middleweight champion of Rio 2016, gave a boxing lesson to the Briton on the ring of the Tokyo-2020 Games, Whittaker did not dispute his resounding defeat but when he received the medal at the ceremony he preferred to keep it in his trouser pocket. However, the Cuban's victory was not unanimous because one of the five judges surprisingly saw his opponent as the winner. Despite the exhibition, Whittaker was not resigned to leave the Kokugikan arena with the silver medal. After his act of non-conformity, he justified himself by saying "I was not trying to disrespect Lopez", and added "it's his moment and I don't want to take away his shine (...) He is a double medalist for a reason and today he showed his level". Translated with www.DeepL.com/… (free version)

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