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- Updated: August 17, 2016
Savannah Marshall’s Olympic dream was shattered by her Netherlands nemesis Nouchka Fontijn in the women’s middleweight quarter-final in Rio.
The Team GB star lost out to a split decision to deny her the chance of following team-mates Nicola Adams, Joe Joyce and Joshua Buatsi onto the medal podium.
The score of 36-40, 38-38, 37-39, proved it was anything but one-sided as Marshall looked to turn the tables on Fontijn.
The pair have met four times in recent months with Fontijn winning all four. Marshall, known as the ‘Silent Assassin’, wanted to get her own back on the biggest stage of all and was on the offensive from the off.
Her right hand led the way and kept …
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