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Price: first medal for Brits
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Britain's boxing captain David Price assured his team of its first medal of the Games after coming through his quarter-final against Jaroslav Jaksto of Lithuania.
The Liverpudlian super-heavyweight was leading 3-1 after the first round when Jaksto was forced to pull out with a knee injury.
Price is now guaranteed a bronze medal and will fight defending champion Roberto Cammarelle of Italy for a place in the final.
The 25-year-old Price said: "It was a bit of an anti-climax the way it happened but I'm not going to complain. I think I sickened him a few times anyway. I felt a lot of pressure because I knew how important this win was.
Over the moon
"I'm feeling so much better but there's more to come. I'm over the moon that I've got into the medals not only for me but for the team. They've worked so hard and lots of people have been setting us up for a fall."
Ironically Price's defeat to Cammarelle four years ago denied the 6ft 8ins Liverpudlian his chance of reaching the Athens Games.
Since then Price has battled a succession of injuries including the broken hand which ruled him out of last November's World Championships, where he had been due to face Cammarelle again in the semi-finals.
Price added: "Four years ago I was a lot lighter and less experienced but I've just got to try to forget about that. He knows I would have made life hard for him at the worlds and I can tell he's wary of me."
Price admitted he had felt nervy in the opening stages with so many members of his family having flown out to Beijing to watch him in the wake of his stunning first round demolition of Russian Islam Timurziev.
Stumble
But three big right hands were all it took to put Jaksto on the back foot, the third of which caused the Lithuanian to stumble and seemingly sustain the leg injury which would end the contest prematurely.
Price added: "It was a bit of an anti-climax the way it happened but I'm not going to complain. I think I sickened him a few times anyway. I felt a lot of pressure because I knew how important this win was.
"I'm feeling so much better but there's more to come. I'm over the moon that I've got into the medals not only for me but for the team. They've worked so hard and lots of people have been setting us up for a fall."
