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David Nyika and Mark Keddell on coronavirus affecting Olympic boxing qualification event

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The late cancellation of an Olympic qualifying tournament in China will hit New Zealand's boxers financially.The event in Wuhan has been cancelled by the International Olympic Committee, due to the city's outbreak of the coronavirus.Nine Kiwis had planned to attend. View this post on Instagram As y’all may have heard, our Olympic qualification tournament has been cancelled, however it is expected to be relocated and run at a similar date. There’s confusion right across the board at the moment but Team NZ are staying focussed and working hard. #Tokyo2020 #Coronavirus A post shared by David Nyika (@davidnyika) on Jan 22, 2020 at 5:54pm PST Coach Billy Meehan says not only will the athletes have to train again to peak at the right time, most will have to fork out personally to get there.He says only three, including himself and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist David Nyika, get funded."The rest of the boxers take care of it all of their own."Nyika told D'Arcy Waldegrave that they a