Worker's Gymnasium continues to represent hostile territory for Team Australia as three more boxers from Down Under have been defeated in Beijing.

On Tuesday, 17 year old flyweight Stephen Sutherland of Melbourne had difficulty scoring points against Tunisian veteran Walid Charif and was beaten 14-2. As with the defeat of boxer Todd Kidd earlier this week, Team Australia coaches have questioned what they see as blatant one-sided scoring by the Olympic judging.

Also yesterday, bantamweight Luke Boyd of Sydney gave a good performance but came up short on a score of 18-8 to Botswana's Khumiso Ikgopoleng.

Today in Beijing, the difficulties continued for Team Australia as the man considered the best hope to medal was turned back.

Melbourne heavyweight Brad Pitt put up a good fight but couldn't get past the efforts of Morocco's Mohammed Arjaoui, losing 11-6 after four rounds.

Only super heavyweight Dan Behan has yet to compete at the games as the Gladstone based boxer will meet Kazakhstan's Ruslan Myrsatayev later today and will hopefully join team mate Anthony Little in staying alive for the second round.

Day two of the Beijing Olympics proved as fruitless as day one for Team Australia as two more lads from Down Under were sent home without getting near a medal of any kind.

Team Captain Gerard O'Mahony had the experience of competing in the 2004 Olympics but lost a tough one at welterweight to Vitalie Grusac of Moldova while light welter Todd Kidd was badly outpointed by Morocco's Driss Moussaid.

29 year old O'Mahony of Canberra waged a gritty defensive battle against Grusac, using his impressive countering skills to keep the Moldovan honest but couldn't generate the offense necessary to win and suffered a 7-2 loss as a result.

23 year old Kidd was making his Olympic debut but the Caboolture man ran into a buzzsaw in the form of Moussaid as the experienced Moroccan campaigner painted the Aussie by a wide margin of 23-2, although much of Kidd's efforts over the first three frames seemed to be discounted by the judges.

Team Australia's ability to improve upon the five Olympic medals won since 1908 is getting dimmer but still to compete are super heavy Dan Beahan, heavyweight Brad Pitt, lightweight Anthony Little, featherweight Paul Fleming, bantamweight Luke Boyd and flyweight Stephen Sutherland.

Middleweight Jarrod Fletcher lost on day one of the competition to an opponent he beat just months ago in prior competition, Emilio Correa, by a score of 17-4.