Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi shared a long, emotional embrace.
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“I felt Robeisy won the last 30 seconds”, Stevenson said later.
Stevenson lost by the narrowest of margins to Cuba’s highly accomplished and more experienced Robeisy Ramirez in the Olympic final yesterday, who just edged the contest in the end.
When Ramirez’s hand was raised afterward, Cuba had another two-time gold medalist. With Stevenson taking silver for the US, it bumped the overall medal total up to 107 medals. He’s young and he’s showing his immaturity now, he’s still a baby and it’s a big occasion for him. He was the reigning flyweight champion after success at London 2012.
This has to be seen as bad news for Floyd Mayweather Jr’s promotional company, because it was recently thought by many boxing fans that Stevenson would be signing with Mayweather Promotions after he turns pro. Ramirez, who successfully defended the gold medal he won in London, won because he was the busier man.
American boxer Shakur Stevenson settled for Olympic bantamweight silver on Saturday after suffering the first loss of his worldwide amateur career.
Stevenson knows many opportunities await in his future and he will explore all of them after he returns home from Brazil.
Stevenson also won gold at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Stevenson hesitated. “No”, he said. Third round, he came and did what he was supposed to do. “I’m going to go back, look at my options and then focus on that”. “I didn’t feel it was my best performance so I wasn’t surprised (by the decision)”.
“Just the two of us, building gold medals in the sky!”
Ramirez was awarded the first round by all three judges, while Stevenson took the second. Through four fights heading into this bout, Cuban Robeisy Ramirez Carrazana had flashed sublime skills, his semi final masterclass against Murodjon Akhmadaliev of Uzbekistan standing out as one of the fights of the tournament.
The victory capped a cycle of redemption for Ramirez, who was kicked off the Cuban national team in 2014 for repeatedly neglecting his training.
“I kept thinking about all the people that supported me to get here”, Ramirez said.
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Stevenson, the oldest of nine siblings, was inconsolable by the many friends and family who made the trip from Newark.
