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during the filming of French TV reality show '' Dropped'' for the TF1 network.

Career

At the 2004 junior world championships, Vastine was knocked out by Amir Khan at lightweight and won bronze. At the 2007 senior world championships in Chicago, he was outpointed by

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at junior welter but qualified for the Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics, Vastine reached the semifinal where he faced

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from the

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. With Vastine leading by two in the final round, the Dominican fighter made a comeback and won the fight. Vastine lost the match by two points after being penalised twice by the referee, having four points deducted from his score.

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reported: The Agence France-Presse described the referee's ruling as "controversial". Diaz, however, went on to win the gold medal. Vastine went on to suffer what was widely seen as an unjust decision at the 2012 Olympics in London, where he drew on points but lost on countback to top-seeded welterweight Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine in the quarter-finals, thus missing out on a medal.

Olympic games results

2008 (as a Light welterweight) *Defeated Egidijus Kavaliauskas (Lithuania) 13–2 *Defeated

(Great Britain) 11–7 *Defeated

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(Mongolia) 12–4 *Lost to

(Dominican Republic) 10–12 2012 (as a Welterweight) *Defeated

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(Germany) 16-12 *Defeated

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(Mongolia) 13-12 *Lost to Taras Shelestyuk (Ukraine) 18+-18

World amateur championships results

2007 (as a Light welterweight) *Defeated

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(Uzbekistan) 28–27 *Defeated Edward Akora (Uganda) RSCO 3 *Defeated Vasili Belous (Moldava) 27–10 *Lost to

(England) 13–30

Death

On 9 March 2015, as part of a group of French sports stars participating in a reality TV show called '' Dropped'', Vastine was one of 10 people who died when helicopters collided in mid-air during filming in northwestern Argentina. His 21-year-old sister Célie, also an amateur boxer, had been killed in a car accident in France just two months before.Alexis Vastine : Mort de sa soeur Célie, 21 ans, le sort s'acharne sur le boxeur
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