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Ogogo beats world champion Khytrov

Anthony Ogogo produced arguably the greatest performance of his career to defeat Ukraine's reigning world champion Ievgen Khytrov via a nail-biting judges' decision to move within one more win of a Boxing medal.
Anthony Ogogo of Great Britain celebrates victory
Anthony Ogogo of Great Britain celebrates his victory over Levgen Khytrov of Ukraine during the Men's Middle (75kg) Boxing on Day 6 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at ExCeL.

Great Britain's Ogogo matched his illustrious opponent in a brutal, action-packed Middle Weight bout which had the capacity ExCeL crowd on their feet, then faced an agonising wait as the final score showed an 18-18 tie between the pair.

Even the countback system - in which the individual scores of all five judges are tallied together - yielded an amazing 52-52 tie, before the judges were required to pick a winner and the majority went with Ogogo.


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