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Pugilist Akhil Kumar failed to penetrate the solid defences of his Moldovan opponent Gojan Veaceslav and crashed out in the quarterfinal of 54kg category in Beijing Olympic Games on Monday, dashing India's medal hopes. Akhil, who was one win away from ensuring India's first Olympic medal in boxing, went into all out offensive unleashing a flurry of punches right from the word go but ran into the nearly impeccable defence and lost the bout 3-10 against the unheralded Moldovan.