Boxer Chatchai Butdee will represent Thailand at the Olympic Games
13 December 2011
Chatchai Butdee is the first G4S 4teen athlete to officially qualify for London 2012.
The flyweight boxer, who won a gold medal at the recent London Olympic Test Event, was delighted to receive the news.
“London 2012 has always been my dream. I want to win a medal there,” he said.
Last year Chatchai spent a week with programme mentor, Haile Gebrselassie, in his hometown of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
“Haile put his gold medals around our necks,” he recalls. “He said we would have to work hard to get one. I am working hard because I want to win gold.”