Alyssa Mendoza (Caldwell, Idaho) earned her first Olympic victory this morning on the Paris 2024 Video games with a hard-fought, 3-2 cut up determination.
In a sport of grit and grind, Mendoza needed to dig deep and steal Tuesday’s win away from Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova. Mendoza took the primary spherical 3-2 and seemed robust after touchdown a number of jabs all through the opening three minutes. Regardless of dropping the second spherical 4-1, she bounced again within the third to seal the victory in her Olympic debut.
“The second spherical I acquired caught probably the most,” Mendoza said on her changes heading into the ultimate spherical. “The third spherical I began shifting to my proper extra when she was orthodox, and I felt like I landed cleaner punches within the third spherical.”
Down 2-1 after the opening two rounds, Mendoza wanted to win judges 2, 3 and 4 to safe her comeback victory. Mendoza did simply that and took all 5 scorecards to win the bout by way of a 3-2 cut up determination.
“It was first battle and it was more durable than I anticipated,” Mendoza said after the win over Tajikistan. “It was check and good first battle and I sit up for the following one.”
Following the win, Mendoza advances to the spherical of 16, the place she’s going to face Brazil’s Jucielen Cerqeuira Romeu on Friday, Aug. 2, at 10:18 a.m. ET.
Roscoe Hill opened Tuesday’s motion for Crew USA in opposition to France’s Billal Bennama. Bennama got here out robust and took the primary spherical 5-0 behind the raucous roars from the house crowd. Hill discovered his footing within the second spherical and notched a 4-1 rating earlier than claiming a 3-2 benefit within the third spherical. Nonetheless, he was not awarded the win and finally fell by a troublesome 3-2 cut up determination.
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Crew USA is coached by USA Boxing Head Coach Billy Walsh (Colorado Springs, Colo.), together with Nationwide Resident Coach Timothy Nolan (Rochester, N.Y.), in addition to Nationwide Growth Coach Chad Wigle (Colorado Springs, Colo.), together with assistant coaches Adonis Frazier (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Christine Lopez (Rowlett, Texas).
Tuesday, July 30 Outcomes
51 kg: Billal Bennama/FRA dec. over Roscoe Hill, Spring, Texas/USA, 3-2
57 kg: Alyssa Mendoza, Caldwell, Idaho/USA dec. over Mijgona Samadova/TJK, 3-2
Wednesday, July 31 Schedule
71 kg: Omari Jones, Orlando, Fla./USA vs. Kan Chia Wei/TPE – 5:48 a.m. ET
57 kg: Jahmal Harvey, Oxon Hill, Md./USA vs. Luiz Gabriel Oliveira/BRA – 10:02 a.m. ET
Thursday, Aug. 1 Schedule
50 kg: Jennifer Lozano, Laredo, Texas/USA vs. Pihla Kaivo-Oja/ FIN – 10:02 a.m. ET
66 kg: Morelle McCane, Cleveland, Ohio/USA vs. Navbakhor Khamidova/UZB – 10:50 a.m. ET
Friday, Aug. 2 Schedule
57 kg: Alyssa Mendoza, Caldwell, Idaho/USA vs. Jucielen Cerqueira Romeu/BRA – 10:18 a.m. ET
