Boxing: Brazil secures at least silver with lightweight win (Reuters)

Lightweight Robson Conceição secured at least a silver medal for Olympic host country Brazil on Sunday, defeating Cuban world champion Lázaro Alvarez before a boisterous hometown crowd. Conceição, a 27-year-old who was eliminated in early stages of the last two Olympics, said he is more focused now and driven, especially on a Sunday that happens to be Father’s Day in Brazil, after the birth of a daughter in 2014. On Tuesday Conceição, from the north-eastern Brazilian city of Salvador, will face the winner of a second semi-final bout on Sunday evening between Mongolia’s Otgondalai Dorjnyambuu and France’s Sofiane Oumiha.