Olympic Boxing: The Barriga Incident

Of all the Filipino athletes in London, it was only Mark Anthony Barriga who even managed to give the Pinoys a glimmer of hope. After all, Barriga qualified on his own merit and he's a boxer, where we've had some success (most of our Olympic medals came from boxing)

And, faced with a familiar foe in Birzhan Zhakypov from Kazakhstan, Barriga seemed confident that he had things under control, despite his obvious height and reach disadvantage.