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by an Australian referee. On being disqualified, he stomped around the ring for several minutes and would not leave. The referee was also later disqualified when he was found with a suspicious amount of money, that was not in his possession when entering Canada. Prevost won the silver medal at the

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1976 Olympic results

Below is the Olympic record of Michael Prevost, a Canadian light middleweight boxer who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics: * Round of 32: lost to Vasile Didea (Romania) on a third-round disqualification He was also Canadian champion seven times and had been boxing since the age of five. Although the Canadian Boxing Association asked him to represent Canada in the following commonwealth games, he declined on the grounds that he had not been fully supported in rectifying the situation during the 1976 Olympics.

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