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The Irish had the noisiest supporters at the Olympic boxing but light-middleweight Michael Roche lost quietly all the same.
Turkey’s Firat Karagollu beat the Cork factory machinist on points, 17-4.
Roche was the sole Irish boxer in the tournament, a sad turnaround from 1992 when Michael Carruth won a welterweight gold and Wayne McCullough took bantamweight silver.
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