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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 SPORTS Summer of love for Automne and Ashley BAKU: French and British judokas Automne Pavia and Ashley McKenzie find it amusing that just over a week after the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, where the Duke of Wellington ended Napoleon’s career, their rela- tionship is rock solid. Indeed McKenzie, the Commonwealth Games champion in the 60kg category, told AFP he is the happiest he has ever been having finally got together with Pavia in Cuba in June last year, 10 years after they first became close at a juniors tournament in Lyon, France. AZERBAIJAN: France’s Ivan Trevejo (left) competes against France’s Daniel Jerent “When you want something and you can’t (right) in the men’s epee individual quarter-final match at the 2015 European Games. have it, you want it even more,” McKenzie said in —AFP an interview alongside Olympic and world bronze medallist Pavia as they prepare to com- pete in the European Games in Baku. “Now I have it I don’t want to let her go.” Taylor relaxed about McKenzie, who has a Jamaican father and an English mother, said his heart skips a beat when his girlfriend competes. fighting Azerbaijani “At the world championships (in Russia last BAKU: Irish boxing superstar Katie Taylor a top class Gaelic footballer, said she would August) when a British team-mate did well I said says she has enough experience of taking not adapt her attacking style to avoid well done as that is what you do,” he said. “But on opponents in their own backyard to not exposing herself to her opponent and when she won her bronze my heart was beating have to worry about her Azerbaijani rival in sewing doubts in the judges minds.
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