Filipina boxer Aira Villegas faces a familiar foe in the women's 50kg round of 16, but the pride of Tacloban City still braces for surprises in her bid to stay in the Olympic medal hunt
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HOOK. Boxer Aira Villegas of the Philippines in action against Yasmine Mouttaki of Morocco in the round of 32 of the women's 50kg division in the 2024 Paris Olympics.Filipina boxer Aira Villegas faces a familiar foe in the women's 50kg round of 16, but the pride of Tacloban City still braces for surprises in her bid to stay in the Olympic medal huntaims to put her familiarity with her next foe to good use as she hopes to inch closer to a guaranteed medal in the Paris Olympics.
Villegas faces second seed Roumaysa Boualam of Algeria next in the women’s 50kg division when they tangle in the round of 16 at the North Paris Arena on Thursday, August 1 . It will not be their first encounter as Villegas sparred with Boualam in the lead-up to the Olympics.“I’ve sparred with her before, but of course, an actual match is different,” said Villegas in Filipino. “We need to study her again and train hard.”A two-time Olympian, the Algerian won two golds each in the African Games and African Amateur Boxing Championships and a gold each in the Mediterranean Games and Arab Games.A win over Boualam will put Villegas within a victory of at least a bronze.
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