Nico Hernandez realized the enormous odds he faced when he stepped in the ring with Russia’s Vasilii Egorov, the second-seeded light flyweight in the Olympic boxing tournament. Those odds were nothing that a fighter from Wichita couldn’t overcome with a little help from an Irish coach. Hernandez pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics’ first three days on Monday night with a unanimous decision over Egorov, the European champion and runner-up at last year’s world championships.
An Air Force bomb squad has safely detonated a barnacle-encrusted bomb that washed ashore on St. Pete Beach in Florida.
A spokesman for Mac Dill Air Force base says the object was a photoflash bomb, used to aid WWII-era night photographic missions.
A beachgoer found the old bomb while combing the shoreline Sunday morning and alerted authorities.
That call triggered a daylong effort to evacuate beachgoers and homeowners, build a sand berm around the bomb, protect hatching sea turtles and safely detonate the M122 flare where it was found.
Officials established a 900-foot safety perimeter, before expanding the barrier to about 1,400 feet on each side prior to the bomb going off around 5 p.m.
St. Pete Beach Mayor Maria Lowe says about 25 homes were evacuated and 250 beachgoers displaced.
