Olympics-Boxing-Colombia, Uzbekistan advance to men’s flyweight final (Reuters)
By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Colombia’s Yurberjen Martinez and Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov advanced to the flyweight final in Olympic boxing on Friday, the morning that women also began fighting at Rio 2016. Martinez, 24, is the first Colombian to win an Olympic boxing medal in 28 years and would be the first to ever win gold or silver for the South American country. “We are making history but there is still a final bout to fight.” Because of rules that prohibit a third-place fight between those who lose their semifinals, American Nico Hernandez and Cuba’s Joahnys Argilagos, a 2015 world champion, both take home a bronze.