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Ben Dirs | 14:46 UK time, Thursday, 3 June 2010

Spend a day with Great Britain's elite amateur boxers at and the thought might occur to you, as it did to me:

Certainly a gold medallist at the 1956 Olympics and one of an array of former Olympians who stare down at the London 2012 hopefuls from huge posters at the state-of-the-art facility, never did.

The 18-year-old Spinks was collecting bins at the Albert Dock in East London a week before his late call-up for the Melbourne Games, a lack of money the reason given for his original omission.

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