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Gavin: Happy with regime
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Gold medal contender Frankie Gavin has been on a strict diet in order to comfortably make the 60kg limit at the Olympics.
Gavin has been operating at light-welterweight but needs to compete at lightweight in Beijing, the same category as when he became the first Briton to claim gold at the world championship last November.
The 22-year-old is currently completing his preparations in Macau along with the seven other members of the boxing squad, and will have an army of dieticians monitoring his progress between now and the start of the competition on August 9.
"I'm feeling good and I'm sure I'm going to make the weight okay," he said. "Obviously it's been a struggle but as long as I'm sensible and continue to do the right things I'll be fine.
"It felt a lot worse before Chicago (for the world championships) because I hadn't made the weight all year and I didn't think I could do it. I was surviving mostly on fluids and energy bars and it was very tough.
"After my fights I'd have to train then I'd go to bed without eating. It was difficult but I came through it and if I did it in Chicago and still won, there's no reason I can't do the same at the Olympics."
The entirely unseeded and potentially crucial draw for the boxing competition is set to take place in central Beijing on August 8,
