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Delicious Orie
Delicious Orie won the super-heavyweight gold medal for England in the last bout of the boxing tournament at his Birmingham hometown on the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games.
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Orie showed off his skill the first round, landing long-range jabs on India's Sagar Ahlawat. The biggest cause of celebration came when Orie - dubbed by some as the 'new Anthony Joshua' - recovered to beat Sagar with a patient performance, which was tipped in his favour by a late flurry of punches.
Orie, who was born in Russia but grew up in Wolverhampton after his family moved to England when he was a child, took up the sport at 19 years-old at the Jewellery Quarter Boxing Club in Birmingham.
Six years later he was representing Team England and taking home a gold medal. He has been one of the poster boys for the Games and it felt fitting - certainly for the emotionally invested home fans - that he was victorious in the final boxing bout.
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