The boxing competition was held at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. It was another example of how the transportation system functioned well; one could park his or her car at a convenient location such as the federal building in West Los Angeles and take special busses to the venue. The busses were on time, convenient, and obviated the need for finding a parking space once one arrived at the venue.
   Amateur boxing, especially as it is conducted in the Olympic Games, is quite different from professional boxing. There are three, three-minute rounds with a minute rest period in between compared with up to twelve (fifteen in some cases) rounds of professional boxing. As a consequence the action is nonstop from bell to bell as the competitors do not need to pace themselves as in the longer professional bouts.
   The objective is different, too. In professional boxing, the objective is to knock down or knock out the opponent. In amateur boxing the objective is to score points (only blows struck with the white part of the glove count) and a knock down counts no more than any other scoring blow.
   My wife had never seen amateur boxing and did not think she would like it. She was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the competition as most bouts were evenly contested. It was not at all like professional fighting where the contestants spend a great deal of time clinching and there are occasional flurries of fighting; in Olympic boxing the action is almost continuous.Boxing is a contact sport so occasionally a boxer would bleed a little from his nose or from a cut, but it was not close to the bloody brawls one sees in prize fighting.