TRAINER ?DODONG? DONAIRE SR BELIEVES HE CAN HELP RP BOXERS WIN THEIR FIRST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN RIO
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 14 Apr 2016
Donaire Sr.
?Dodong? Donaire Sr, the trainer/father of five division world champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire believes he can help the Philippines win its first gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August.
Donaire Sr told The Standard, ?I hope to help bring our country a gold medal. We have good talents to be able to accomplish that goal. We have the talent.?
Donaire chose lightweight Charly Suarez as a top choice in the gold medal quest and said ?hopefully welterweight Eumir Felix Marcial can also qualify and win a gold? in Rio.
The accomplished trainer said ?it is also my dream? to help win our first Olympic gold medal in boxing and noted that ?we have lots of time to go through our drills.?
He said that during a recent training stint in the US, the boxers ?got good sparring in Las Vegas? and that his son, Nonito Donaire who was training for his title defense against former 2004 Hungarian Olympian Zsolt Bedak also helped out, which was a plus.
?Dodong? Donaire told us during the training stint that the boxers?looked impressive in sparring? with the Mexican and American opponents who were ?very tough and gave the Filipinos a lot of good sparring.?
The veteran trainer said ?all the Filipinos are really good but we need to continue to work with them? while ABAP executive director Ed Picson described the US training camp as ?very productive and the the sparring sessions were lively and competitive and while our boxers impressed there were some close skirmishes which can only serve them well as facing different opponents every time builds their resilience and confidence.?
Donaire also told us that WBO super bantamweight champion, his son Nonito has ?no problems and is training hard and looking fine? as they get ready to leave for Cebu on Saturday to check out the environment at the Cebu Sports Center.
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