Blood and guts: Olympic boxers dealing with facial cuts (The Associated Press)

Olympic boxing is bloody again. Algerian middleweight Ilyas Abbadi was unsure how he got the 1 1/2-inch gash outside his left eye during his victory over Congo’s Mpi Ngamissengue on Tuesday, but blood trickled down his face during the bout. ”Now I know the value of the headgear,” Abbadi said through a translator.