Britain's boxers, all under coach Terry Edwards, take a breather at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield

David Price is Britain's first Olympic heavyweight contender since Audley Harrison won gold at Athens 2000

Price is one of eight Britons heading to Beijing - more than qualified for the three previous games combined

Price has already won Commonwealth gold, heavyweight division, for England in Melbourne 2006

Joe Murray, 20, from Levenshulme, was Britain's first qualifier following the World Amateur Championships in Chicago, October 2007

Bantamweight Murray, talking to Steve Bunce, defeated Commonwealth silver medallist Bruno Julie to book his place in Beijing

"Buzzing" Brad Saunders qualified for Beijing by reaching the last eight in the same tournament as Murray

The qualification of light-welterweight Saunders, 20, from Durham, doubled the number of British boxers that made it to Athens

Billy Joe Saunders made history being the first Briton from the Romany Gypsy community to qualify for an Olympic Games

Saunders, 18, a welterweight fighter from the Hoddesdon club, Hertfordshire, hopes his feats will be positive for travellers' culture

James "Chunky" DeGale from Hammersmith, middleweight, has already fought 90 amateur bouts, despite being only 22

Khalid Yafai, England's first under-17 world champion, qualified for the games with Billy Joe and James in Italy, this year

Flyweight Khalid Yafai, 18, is the youngest of Edwards' team and a graduate of the Birmingham City Amateur Boxing Club

Britain's world amateur lightweight champion Frankie Gavin will turn professional after the Beijing Games

Gavin (left) is England's first amateur boxing world champion, while Tony Jeffries (right) is Sunderland's first Olympic boxer

"Jaffa" Jeffries of Sunderland got into boxing following his uncle, Billy Bryce, and joined the Lambton Street Boy's club

Light-heavyweight Jeffries, 22, has boxed for England 42 times, out of 82 fights, and won European Cadets gold in 2001