Between them, Joshua Buatsi and Ramla Ali hold a handful of national titles, two fruitful partnerships with Nike, one Olympic Bronze medal, and several groundbreaking sporting firsts. Having both become infatuated with the all-consuming nature of training and competing when they were teenagers, Buatsi and Ali have both dedicated the majority of the past decade to the sport. In the Spring issue, we meet the Tokyo 2020 hopefuls who deconstruct the daily grind of training to stay at the top for us. As Buatsi puts it: “In a race you can come second, third, fourth, fifth, but in boxing? There’s you, and him.”

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