Khalid Yafai puts promise of riches on hold in hunt for Olympic gold | Kevin Mitchell

- (guardian.co.uk/sport/boxing) - 6 months, 1 week ago...

Birmingham flyweight faces best-of-three box-off against Andrew Selby for place in Team GB at London 2012Khalid Yafai is perched on the edge of a boxing ring in Birmingham, a few miles from where he grew up, and, like a gun-slinger caressing his chosen weapon of mayhem, he absent-mindedly strokes the gnarled lump that sits on the back of his right hand.The chicken-like bones that have been fused through years of impact will be among the enduring souvenirs of his calling when he retires, and Yafa...

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