Paul Kroll started his quest to make the Olympics on the right foot Thursday defeating Greece’s Dimitrios Poulikos Tsagkrakos 3-0 with all three judges scoring in 30-27 to the American. Kroll’s 69kg division has the second largest field of the ten divisions competing with 47 entrants so Kroll still has a lot of competition for the five Olympic spots with 32 boxers still remaining. Kroll will fight next on Saturday.

Friday will be the first bouts for Antonio Vargas (52kg), Gary Russell (64kg), and Jonathan Esquivel (81kg). Cam F. Awesome (91kg) and Marlo Moore (+91kg) will continue to wait for their first bout.

Preliminaries continue Friday and run through Tuesday to narrow fields down to eight in each weight class for quarterfinals that will take place on Tuesday and Thursday of next week.

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