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As the US Olympic boxing squad founders in Beijing, 21-year-old Danny Jacobs sits back in his Brownsville, Brooklyn home watching on television. Just as the rest of the world does.
Jacobs had been favored long before the Olympic trials were scheduled to bring home the gold in 2008; it was his destiny. His hopes of making the squad for the Athens game in 2004 were foiled when he missed the official weigh-in by mere moments. He would not let poor preparation stand in his way again, he promised.
After four New York Golden Gloves titles, a 2005 National Golden Gloves title and a 2006 National Amateur championship, Jacobs had been billed as the second coming of Sugar Ray Leonard, the next American Golden Boy. It seemed like nothing would block his path towards China.
That was before Shawn Estrada nixed those plans last August by upsetting Jacobs in the trials, rendering the efforts of temporary coach and former gold medalist Mark Breland in vain.
Now he watches from the sidelines as others chase their dreams of Olympic immortality. [details]
Photo (c) Cespedes Studios
As the US Olympic boxing squad founders in Beijing, 21-year-old Danny Jacobs sits back in his Brownsville, Brooklyn home watching on television. Just as the rest of the world does.
Jacobs had been favored long before the Olympic trials were scheduled to bring home the gold in 2008; it was his destiny. His hopes of making the squad for the Athens game in 2004 were foiled when he missed the official weigh-in by mere moments. He would not let poor preparation stand in his way again, he promised.
After four New York Golden Gloves titles, a 2005 National Golden Gloves title and a 2006 National Amateur championship, Jacobs had been billed as the second coming of Sugar Ray Leonard, the next American Golden Boy. It seemed like nothing would block his path towards China.
That was before Shawn Estrada nixed those plans last August by upsetting Jacobs in the trials, rendering the efforts of temporary coach and former gold medalist Mark Breland in vain.
Now he watches from the sidelines as others chase their dreams of Olympic immortality. [details]
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