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Aira Villegas ran into an accurate-punching opponent and missed out on a final ticket after bowing to Turkiye’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu early Wednesday morning in the women’s 50kg boxing semifinals of the Paris Olympics at Stade Roland Garros.
Villegas will thus settle for the bronze medal, officially becoming the second Filipino to get a podium finish.
Cakiroglu, the first female Olympic medalist for boxing, advances to the final against China’s Wu Yu.
The Turkiye flyweight was dominant all bout long, and won on all judges’ scorecards. She hasn’t lost a single card on her road to the final, a show of dominance unmatched in the tournament.
