Thailand travelled to Europe to make the final preparations for the Paris Olympics
Thailand started their final preparations for the Olympic Games and the team travelled to Europe to make sparring and training sessions against top countries. Thailand selected not only their eight Olympians for these training camps but their future hopes as well.
Thailand, the best boxing country in the Southeast Asian region, exceeded their previous performance and achieved eight quotas for the Paris Olympics. Thailand’s eight quotas means that this is their best performance since the 2008 Beijing Olympics when they also had the same number of qualified boxers.
Thailand bagged five quotas through the Asian Games in Hangzhou, and one of their female stars took the country’s sixth spot for Paris at the 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Bangkok. Thailand hosted the 2nd World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event two weeks ago and two of their further boxers qualified for Paris.
Thailand will be in training camps in Germany and in France before the Paris Olympics and the country is aiming for their fifth Olympic title in boxing this summer after their titles in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Thailand will train in Kienbaum, Germany first with the local squad and other European and Asian nations as well. Kienbaum is located near to the capital city, Berlin and it has a fully equipped boxing facility with accommodation and all the necessary logistics. Several of the countries joined also the preparations to support the Olympian boxers in the training camp.
Their squad will travel from Germany to Nancy, France to make the final preparations before the Olympic Games in the local environment. Nancy is a riverfront city in the northeastern of France and it has the population of 105,000, most importantly it is only 320km far from the venue of the Olympic Games.
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