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JO - Boxing - Sow: "Go to the end"
The boxer french Daouda Sow (60 kg) felt, in Beijing Friday, after his qualification for the finals of the Olympic boxing tournament at the expense of the Cuban Yordenis Ugas (15-8) (Reuters Photo), that "we conducted a Part of the goal. "
"Daouda Sow, a spot in the finals after beating a world champion Cuba is exceptional?
It was made part of the goal. The qualifying for the Games is past, the medal is past. Now we will go through. I quit boxing for a year for personal reasons, then I came back.
Do you have doubts when you were conducted in mid-battle?
No, I have not doubted. It is a human being. I knew physically it was not the top.
Do you know your future opponent, Russian Alexey Tishchenko?
I know the Russian name but I've never met, but I've seen a lot. It is the No. 1. It will not be easy but we will make a difference.
Does this annoys you when you said about you that this is a surprise?
Yes it m'agace because this is not a surprise. Brahim (Asloum) told me: "Nobody awaited me and I beat the best." If this was possible in 2000 why not in 2008. This is the job for years. When I stopped boxing was to work. It is a pride when small 9-year-old just wonder autographs now. Boxing is a school of life.
You have dedicated your victory Lilian Thuram making the same gesture to him during his match against Croatia in the World Cup 1998?
I appreciate for his charisma, his personality. I also dedicated my victory to Alexis Vastine (eliminated in the semi-finals). When he lost I had tears for him. " (AFP)
The boxer french Daouda Sow (60 kg) felt, in Beijing Friday, after his qualification for the finals of the Olympic boxing tournament at the expense of the Cuban Yordenis Ugas (15-8) (Reuters Photo), that "we conducted a Part of the goal. "
"Daouda Sow, a spot in the finals after beating a world champion Cuba is exceptional?
It was made part of the goal. The qualifying for the Games is past, the medal is past. Now we will go through. I quit boxing for a year for personal reasons, then I came back.
Do you have doubts when you were conducted in mid-battle?
No, I have not doubted. It is a human being. I knew physically it was not the top.
Do you know your future opponent, Russian Alexey Tishchenko?
I know the Russian name but I've never met, but I've seen a lot. It is the No. 1. It will not be easy but we will make a difference.
Does this annoys you when you said about you that this is a surprise?
Yes it m'agace because this is not a surprise. Brahim (Asloum) told me: "Nobody awaited me and I beat the best." If this was possible in 2000 why not in 2008. This is the job for years. When I stopped boxing was to work. It is a pride when small 9-year-old just wonder autographs now. Boxing is a school of life.
You have dedicated your victory Lilian Thuram making the same gesture to him during his match against Croatia in the World Cup 1998?
I appreciate for his charisma, his personality. I also dedicated my victory to Alexis Vastine (eliminated in the semi-finals). When he lost I had tears for him. " (AFP)
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