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Cleveland Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha loses in second round at 2012 Olympic Games in boxing

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com

LONDON, England-Cleveland Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha (pictured) lost a one-point decision in the second round at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Thursday to Indian matinee idol Vijender, whom sports pundits predicted the winner .

A middleweight division fighter, Gausha, 24, was among the 16 amateur boxers out of the original 32 to advance to the quarter finals.

A former Golden Gloves champion who began boxing at the age of 10, Gausha, who is Black, won the first round of the boxing competition by knocking out Armenia's Andranik Hakobvan in the third round.

He is a product of the Cleveland Municipal School District, the city of Cleveland's predominantly Black school system.

 

Cleveland is the second largest city in Ohio with roughly 400, 000 people.

Columbus is number one and is the state's capital.

Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by telephone at 216-659-0473.

 

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