John Joe Nevin

John Joe Nevin: injury won't rule me out of Olympics

John Joe Nevin's hopes of appearing in a second successive Olympic Games are still on track despite suffering a double fracture of his cheekbone in his latest bout.The highly rated bantamweight suffered the injury in his most recent WSB bout against Milano Thunder's Branimir Stankovic two weeks."I got a scan in France but didn't know how bad it was. I flew back to Germany ( where the Irish Elite squad are competing in a tournament ) but they told me to go fly back to Ireland to see a specialist in St James. I'm blessed that I'm only out for four or five weeks. It could have been a whole lot worse," he said.