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Wed 08 Aug 2008Elusive Egan secures bronze in superb style
OLYMPICS:KENNY EGAN was eight and still he claims with a big grin "in nappies" when he saw Michael Carruth win gold in Barcelona. He decided there and then to embark on the long march which led him yesterday to the Workers' Gymnasium in Beijing and a quarter-final bout with the Brazilian Washington Silva.
"It's amazing," he said after a comfortable 8-0 defeat of an opponent who appeared primarily concerned with not getting hurt.
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