Boxing is one of the most awaited events in the Olympics, year after year
#4 Oscar De La Hoya
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Oscar De La Hoya lived up to the wishes of his mother, who wanted him to win Olympic Gold
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In the world of boxing, there is no story as tender and warm as that of Oscar De la Hoya. An accomplished amateur boxer, at the age of 17, he won the U.S. National Championship and was the youngest U.S. boxer at that year's Goodwill Games, winning a gold medal. However, he was soon distraught to find that his mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her dream was to see her son win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Oscar De La Hoya took his mother’s wishes to heart and trained relentlessly to achieve this goal. And in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, he beat Marco Rudolph to achieve this distinction. He went on to have a fantastic professional career too.
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