Qatar boxer Thulasi a step closer to Rio qualification

Qatar’s Thulasi Tharumalingam (right) in action against Italy’s Massimiliano Ballisai during their men’s 64kg light welter quarter-final at the APB-WSB Olympic Qualification Event in Vargas, Venezuela, on Monday. Tharumalingam won 3-0 to set up tomorrow’s semi-final bout with Argentina’s Carlos Aquino. A win in that bout will send the Qatar boxer to 2016 Rio Olympic Games.