Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Desmond Lynam presents a history of Olympic boxing, featuring some of the greatest champions who began their rise to fame in the Olympic ring, including George Foreman, Floyd Patterson and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Cuban Teofilo Stevenson and Hungarian Laszlo Papp, who both won three gold medals, tell how politics limited their careers, and Britain's own champions Dick McTaggart, Terry Spinks and Chris Finnegan also contribute.
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