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One of the most important intrigues of the pre-Olympic boxer’s tournament in Helsinki was not on the cards to be happened in all its sharpness. The matter is that Olympic champion Siberian Alexey Tishchenko and current world-champion under the notion of weight up to 60 kg Englisher Frankie Gavin have arrived in Finland. During the last World Championship in Chicago the opposition between these sportsmen has ended in success of the United Kingdom’s representative. However at present the training council decided to declare Frankie in a weight category up to 64 kg. Therefore this time Alexey will work the way up to the victory without his redoubtable counterpart.
During the first meeting Alexey is fighting about with boxer from Algeria, then with Lithuanian sportsman, and further, as they say, with somebody, who is on hand: either Finn, or Hungarian, - who, in their turn, will get an opportunity to encounter among themselves on the eve. Merited coach of Russian Federation Leonid Kiselyov, the personal trainer of Alexey Tishchenko, considers that such-like tournaments are very important in the way of training before main starts of a quadrennium - The Olympic Games in China.
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