Boxed an Olympic final – and lost. Light heavyweight boxer Benjamin Whittaker could not be happy about silver immediately and showed it with an unusual gesture.
At the Olympic award ceremony after his lost final against Cuban Arlen Lopez, light heavyweight boxer Benjamin Whittaker did not want to hang the silver medal around his neck. Instead, the Brit put it in his pocket on Wednesday in Tokyo. “I felt like a failure, so I couldn’t celebrate the silver medal at the time,” he said as the reason for his unusual behavior. For the entire ceremony he stood with his head bowed. “I was just so upset because I wanted the gold, not the silver.”
Lopez ‘point win did not doubt Whittaker. “The right man won. I didn’t have the right plan and he was way better than I thought,” he said. “I didn’t mean to be disrespectful to him. It’s his moment and I don’t want to take the shine away from him.”
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