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Philippines' Aira Villegas receives instructions from the coach during the break while competing against Turkey's Buse Naz Cakiroglu in the women's 50kg semi-final boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 6, 2024.
Not even a knockdown scored by Villegas using a right straight with a minute left in the second could sway the tide against the 28-year-old Cakiroglu, who dusted it off and went by his usual business of precise-punching and solid combinations against the game Filipina. The Philippines also has four boxing silvers in the Olympics, courtesy of Anthony Villanueva , Onyok Velasco , Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam .
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