Sport in Wales played at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but after no Welsh players were selected for the team they decided to leave the Great Britain team to allow their players greater international exposure. Wales has a strong connection with the sport of boxing, particularly in the South Wales Valleys, with fighters such as Tommy Farr, Freddie Welsh, Jimmy Wilde, Dai Dower and Johnny Owen all competing at the highest level. Joe Calzaghe, born to a Welsh mother and Italian father and raised in Newbridge, retired in 2009 as an unbeaten world champion. Other former world champions include Enzo Maccarinelli, Gavin
Gregory Walcott Jackie Cooper. He was frequently cast in westerns like "Bonanza" (seven times), "Maverick", "Frontier Doctor", "Wagon Train", "The High Chaparral", "26 Men", "Sugarfoot" (with Will Hutchins and cast opposite another guest star, Joi Lansing, in the 1958 episode "Bullet Proof"), "Laramie", "The Rifleman", "The Tall Man", "The Dakotas", and in several episodes of CBS's "Rawhide", through which he began a long collaboration with Clint Eastwood. Walcott had featured roles in Eastwood's films "Joe Kidd" (1972), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), "The Eiger Sanction" (1975), and "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978). Walcott made a guest appearance on "Perry Mason" as Bill