Aira Villegas takes home boxing bronze after semifinals loss

Aira Villegas ran into an accurate-punching opponent and missed out on a final ticket after bowing to Turkiye’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu early Wednesday morning in the women’s 50kg boxing semifinals of the Paris Olympics at Stade Roland Garros. Villegas will thus settle for the bronze medal, officially becoming the second Filipino to get a podium