{"id":8876,"date":"2012-07-31T06:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2012-07-31T06:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:46:03","slug":"london-olympics-thapa-loses-to-fierro-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8876","title":{"rendered":"London Olympics: Thapa loses to  Fierro in round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3990\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London Olympics: Thapa loses to  Fierro in first round\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><strong>London: <\/strong>It was a disappointing start for the Indian boxing  contingent at the 2012 Olympics with 2010 Youth Olympics silver  medallist Shiva Thapa (56kg) losing out in the first round of the bantam  weight division at the Excel arena on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Up against  Olympian and 2009 World Championship bronze medallist Oscar Valdez  Fierro of Mexico, the 18-year-old found it difficult to find his  footing. The experienced Mexican took advantage and landed some crucial  blows on the Indian boxer, he quickly raced to a 4:2 lead in the first  round.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second round Thapa found his rhythm and made a strong  comeback, owing to some good combinations he won the round 4:3 and made  it a one point game. But Valdez came out all guns blazing in the final  three minutes of play; making good use of his experience he was easily  able to penetrate the Indians defence. Thapa, who was fast running out  of steam, had no answer to the Mexicans relentless attacking. His  Olympic campaign finally came to an early end with a 9:14 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Thapa,  the youngest Indian boxer to have qualified for the Olympics,   performed extremely well at the Asian Olympic Qualifying tournament in   Astana, Kazakhstan. He did not just qualify for the Olympics but bagged   the gold medal at the Asian qualifiers and was being touted as one of   the medal hopes for India. <\/p>\n<p>The evening session of play will  witness Beijing Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh take centre  stage as he locks horns with 2010 Asian Games bronze medallist Danabek  Suzhanov of Kazakhstan in the preliminary round of the middle weight  division.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3990\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London Olympics: Thapa loses to  Fierro in first round\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shiva_thapa-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><strong>London: <\/strong>It was a disappointing start for the Indian boxing  contingent at the 2012 Olympics with 2010 Youth Olympics silver  medallist Shiva Thapa (56kg) losing out in the first round of the bantam  weight division at the Excel arena on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Up against  Olympian and 2009 World Championship bronze medallist Oscar Valdez  Fierro of Mexico, the 18-year-old found it difficult to find his  footing. The experienced Mexican took advantage and landed some crucial  blows on the Indian boxer, he quickly raced to a 4:2 lead in the first  round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing-boxing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>London Olympics: Thapa loses to Fierro in round 1 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8876\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London Olympics: Thapa loses to Fierro in round 1 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: It was a disappointing start for the Indian boxing contingent at the 2012 Olympics with 2010 Youth Olympics silver medallist Shiva Thapa (56kg) losing out in the first round of the bantam weight division at the Excel arena on Saturday. 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