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Boxing: Jeffries backing; SPORT SHORTS.


OLYMPIC bronze medalist Tony Jeffries has backed Terry Edwards Terry Edwards (b. August 10, 1960) is a musician from Hornchurch, England.
Edwards gained a degree in music from the University of East Anglia in 1982,[1] where he was also a founding member of The Higsons.
 to lead the country's boxers into the 2012 Games despite criticising the under-fire Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain.  head coach.

Edwards, whose contract expires in March 2009, was the subject of a campaign to remove him during the Beijing Olympics - British boxing's best for more than half a century - and a reorganisation Noun 1. reorganisation - the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet  of the amateur sport has placed his future in doubt.

In his exclusive Journal Live blog, Sunderland light-heavyweight Jeffries admits the pair have not always seen eye to eye, but claimed it would be a mistake not to send Edwards to his fourth Olympics as coach. To read Jeffries' latest posting, log on to: http://blogs.journallive.co.uk/journalblogcentra l/to ny jeffries/
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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Oct 11, 2008
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