Boxing star Garside makes shock early exit

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Boxing star Garside makes shock early exit

Harry Garside’s hopes of winning Australia’s first Olympic boxing gold medal are over with a heart-breaking shock loss in his first outing in Paris.

A lightweight bronze medallist at the Tokyo Games, the 27-year-old Victorian fell to Hungarian Richard Kovacs by unanimous decision in their round of 16 clash.

After a first-round bye the 27-year-old Garside started brightly, bouncing around the ring as he showed off his trademark footwork, and won the first round 3-2.

But the awkward Hungarian, a five-time national champion, tried to antagonise the ***********, coming forward with his hands down and his ******* out.

He got the better of Garside in the second round, scored 5-0, with the *********** unable to land enough scoring shots.

The fifth seed in the 63.5kg division, Garside needed to find something special in the third round but again fell short, with another 5-0 round going to Kovacs.

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