All twenty-two semifinal bouts will be contested at the Olympics in Athens on Friday and eight Cubans are striving for gold in the eleven weight classes. One of them, three-time Olympian Lorenzo Aragon faces Jung Joo Kim of Korea, and if he wins, it could set up what could be considered a battle to determine the world’s best amateur pound-for-pound against two-time gold medallist Oleg Saitov of Russia. On Monday, Aragon squeaked into the semifinals with a two-point victory, while Saitov won an eight-point decision and now faces Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan. Another interesting weight class is lightweight, where Mario Kindelan of Cuba bids for a second gold medal first against Russian Murat Khrachev and then against the winner of Serik Yeleuov of Kazakhstan and Amir Khan, a teenager representing Great Britain. At super heavyweight, after conquering American hope Jason Estrada on Monday, Cuban Michael Lopez finds himself matched up against an Egyptian with an intimidating boxing name, Mohammed Aly. The other half of the super heavyweight bracket pits Alexander Povetkin of Russia against Roberto Cammarelle, who succeeds Paolo Vidoz as an Italian medalist.