Sierra Leone
boxers Mohamed Sillah and Abdul Rashid Bangura are out of the commonwealth
boxing contest after they were eliminated in the preliminary rounds.
Sillah who
made it to ring Last Friday was defeated by Daniel Lewis in the second round. So
also was Bangura defeated in the very first rounds of his bout on Saturday. Our
Reporter Mohamed Konneh is in Glasgow and now report.
Report
Seven punches
without a reply were enough to send Mohamed Sillah out of the ring and out of
the commonwealth games last Friday evening. Thanks to the Algerian referee who
stop the fight as it could have been more. The bout was another setback for
Sierra Leone at the ongoing games with the country’s contingent in the Judo and
Squash teams already out of the competition.
The Sierra Leone
fighter started well scoring nine as against ten points in the first rounds but
could not progress further as he was already tired before the start of the
second rounds.
Highly rated Abdul
Bangura was next in line entering the ring on Saturday to take on Brody Blair
of Canada. Bangura’s bout only lasted for three minutes and was already out of
the games. The Canadian was bleeding on the upper eye after coming under early
attach caught by Bangura’s elbow. The officiating referee was forced to stop
the bout declaring Brody the winner even before the end of the first round. This
was Bangura’s first ever fight at a Commonwealth Games and outside Africa.
Losing on
Saturday was the end of Sierra Leone’s participation in the boxing ring at the
20th edition of the commonwealth games. The West African nation
hopes of progressing is far from reach with three out of the eight disciplines to
the commonwealth games now out of the competition.
However, the
country’s overseas based athletes are hoping to overturn the poor performance
at the start when they take on the tracks in the next few days to come.
As it is the 20th
edition of the commonwealth games have witness some fascinating performances with
Africa securing first gold medal in the women’s weighting lighting category.
Thanks to Nigerian Chika Amalaha lighting the 53 kilogram to clinch gold for
Africa and Nigeria in this year’s games.
From the city of
Glasgow in Scotland this is Mohamed Konneh reporting
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