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{{Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics}} |
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{{Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics}} |
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'''] at the ]''' took place in the ] in ], California, United States. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11. Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries.<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/BOX/ |title=Boxing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=28 December 2018}}</ref> |
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'''] at the ]''' took place in the ] in ], California, United States. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11. Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries.<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/BOX/ |title=Boxing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=28 December 2018}}</ref> An upset, that bittered the event, was the absence of the ], ]n, ], and ] in particular, due to the ongoing boycott, that their governments due to political reasons imposed on the Olympics. |
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==Non-participating teams== |
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Had Cuba, Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Hungary participated in the Olympics, their teams would have encompassed the following athletes: |
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!Weight class||{{flag|Cuba}}||{{flag|Soviet Union}}||{{flag|East Germany}}||{{flagicon|People's Republic of Bulgaria}} ]||{{flagicon|Hungarian People's Republic}} ] |
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|Juan Torres Odelin||Karimzhan Abdrakhmanov||]||]||] |
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|]||Serik Nurkazov||Frank Rauschning||Dimitar Slavchev||] |
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|]||Nurlan Abdykalykov||Ingo Benske||]||László Bujdosó |
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|Jose Luis Hernandez||]||]||Rosen Ibishev||Mihály Tánczos |
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|Bernardo Comas||Asylbek Kilimov||]||Kalin Stoyanov||] |
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], who was going to try for his fourth Olympic gold medal before the boycott was oficially announced,<ref name="AP" /> had previously defeated ] twice (one by knockout,) and Hermenegildo Báez had previously defeated ]. Soviet ] defeated both Biggs and Tillman during the USA–USSR duals. During the ], Cuban boxers won 10 medals (6 gold,) and had again been expected to do well.<ref name="AP"> by the Associated Press, ''The New York Times'', May 24, 1984.</ref> The United States team was given a good chance of winning six and possibly as many as nine gold medals in the all twelve weight classes, a windfall resulting from Cuba's withdrawal following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and its Eastern-bloc allies.<ref>''Alfano, Peter''. , ''The New York Times'', July 29, 1984.</ref> In the words of ], "Despite all the flag-waving euphoria in the United States over all those medals in Los Angeles, the Summer Games were a made-in-Disneyland reproduction of the Games because there were no Soviet runners, no Cuban boxers, no East German swimmers."<ref>, ''The New York Times'', December 5, 1984.</ref> |
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==Medal summary== |
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==Medal summary== |
Had Cuba, Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Hungary participated in the Olympics, their teams would have encompassed the following athletes:
Cuba
Soviet Union
East Germany
Bulgaria
Hungary
