Ogogo dedicates first win to his ill mother

Anthony Ogogo got Team GB's Olympic boxing campaign off to a winning start yesterday and dedicated the performance to his stricken mother.

The middleweight from Lowestoft, 23, was on the verge of pulling out of the tournament when his mum Teresa suffered a brain haemorrhage a few weeks ago.

But he decided to press ahead with his dreams and powered past Junior Castillo of the Dominican Republic by 13 points to six.

"It's one for my mum," he said afterwards. "I'll tell her about it on the phone. I don't think she'll have been able to watch it.

"I didn't think I was going to box, but she is getting better."

Meanwhile, this afternoon Welsh welterweight sailed into the next round of the tournament by beating Algeria's Alyas Abbadi 18-10.