Weaver prepared for Strandja chance

Ferndown lightweight Iain Weaver heads to Bulgaria this week meaningful time is using out on his Olympic dream.

Weaver competes in a Strandja Cup in Sofia on 21-26 Feb meaningful he needs a good opening to make a GB group for April’s Olympic qualifier.

That will be a GB boxer’s final possibility to validate for a 2012 Olympics.

“It’s a really large contest for me and an eventuality to infer we merit a mark during a subsequent Olympic qualifier, ” Weaver told BBC Radio Solent.

Weaver’s categorical opposition for a lightweight place is Martin Ward who final week competed in a Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Debrecen, Hungary though was beaten in a quarter-finals.

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“We all get on really well, there is a adversary between us all though it is accessible adversary and we pull any other along”

Iain Weaver

Weaver, 22, will be assimilated in Bulgaria by Andrew Selby and Luke Campbell who have both competent for a London Games.

As good as Weaver, flyweight Selby and bantamweight Campbell, lightweight Joe Cordina and heavyweight Simon Vallily will also be in movement and make adult a rest of a GB team.

For a GB boxers a tournaments in Hungary and Bulgaria are a possibility to acquire a place in a patrol for April’s final Olympic subordinate eventuality in Trabzon, Turkey.

“If we go to this contest and strech a final or even win bullion afterwards we will be in a stick position for Turkey, though a semi-final during a really slightest is my target,” combined Weaver.

Despite a adversary for a place during a Olympics, Weaver says a suggestion in a GB patrol is excellent.

“We all get on really well, there is a adversary between us all though it is a accessible adversary and we pull any other along,” pronounced Weaver.

“There has always been dual people for any weight in a GB patrol that is good, as we are both training tough for a same target.”

The GB patrol has already had 5 boxers validate for London 2012 with Tom Stalker, Fred Evans and Anthony Joshua fasten Selby and Campbell.

And Weaver, who won china during a 2010 European Championships, says a patrol are assured of adding to that volume in Turkey.

“The suggestion in a GB patrol is good during a minute, we had 5 validate during a initial Olympic subordinate eventuality so hopefully during a subsequent one in Turkey we can get even more,” pronounced Weaver.

“I’m meditative about a subsequent qualifier and all we can do is sight tough and do a best we can during this contest and hopefully we can make it to Turkey. After that we can start meditative about Olympic qualification.”