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I joined the BBC Sport website as a callow (yet surprisingly leathery) youth in 2001 and spend many an hour wondering where the last seven years of my life have gone.

In that time, I have worked my way up from the position of office muggins to the giddy heights of "that bloke who talks a load of old rubbish about cricket and stuff".

Boxing is my real passion, although I had never laced up a pair of gloves in anger before being slapped around the ring by Frankie Gavin, Britain's only ever amateur world champion and a big hope for gold in Beijing, in March of this year.

Team GB have eight boxing representatives in Beijing, seven more than last time in Athens, and I will be reporting on their progress. Here's hoping at least one of them can go one better than Amir Khan four years ago and bring home a gold back to Blighty.

Ben Dirs is a BBC Sport journalist focusing on boxing. Our FAQs should answer any questions you have. If they don't, you can contact us.


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  • 1. At 02:05am on 30 Apr 2008, Rudimentary-Giraffe wrote:

    How come I'm the first to comment here? Is this place new? What's the point of it? Are we supposed to critique your personality and your articles?

    If we are, I think your stuff is really good. Particularly the Test match commentary. The flights of whimsy provide welcome relief from dull passages of play or England slowly capitulating. You'd be a welcome addition to the TMS team. Dirs and Boycott would be worth turning in to.

    Any chance you can pull some strings and lobby the bbc "from within" to buy the rights to some Test cricket instead of wasting all their money on soporific Formula One?

    The boxing stuff is good too. I appreciate your obvious enthusiasm for counter-punching (B-Hop) and technique (Floyd) rather than mindless aggression.

    You let yourself down a bit by liking Rugby though.

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  • 2. At 10:51am on 30 Apr 2008, gibboian wrote:

    Ben - how much of an advantage is it having a memorable name?

    My name is Gibbons and everyone thinks they are the first to use the "funky gibbons" joke. I think its 10,343 since the single was released.....

    Funny names apart - your live commentatry was the best part of last summer, what with the terrible weather and my awful job.

    Keep up the good work, and get over to Oz for the Rugby League World cup this autumn.

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