First Women’s Boxing Olympic Gold Medal – brilliant, well done Nicola Adams!
And to Katie Taylor of Ireland – her fellow Gold Medallist!
Stephen
Stephen G Hipperson
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First Women’s Boxing Olympic Gold Medal – brilliant, well done Nicola Adams!
And to Katie Taylor of Ireland – her fellow Gold Medallist!
Stephen
Stephen G Hipperson 
You are really following this stuff, arent you? 😀 😀
Yep! 🙂
As it happens Nicola comes from Leeds which is less than 20km from where I live.
I see, neighbours 🙂
Indeed, and many of the other GB medal winners are Yorkshire folk too!
I can see why you would be proud 🙂
I never get to follow the Olympics much, but there is a sense of pride when one of our own wins…here in the US many of the athletes go into bankrutcy in order to support their desire to win for out country…. I also know that in England the athletes get no prize for their government either… so must fund everything as best they can. Some of the countries give their athletes a great deal of money if they bring back the gold.
So you have every right to be very proud of Nicola and Katie. Thanks for sharing the good news. Congratulations to both young ladies.
Thanks. For me, the most important thing is that they have highlighted the knocking down of another equality barrier – irrespective of whether the sport itself is wise.
Typo: That should read: no prize FROM their government….
From a funding point of view, I don’t think it’s quite so bad for the elite athletes as I think they have their academies, but for the lesser sports, probably for our Nicola, they have to find sponsorship as best they can.
I’ve no doubt, over the coming months each of the medallists will have their share of appearance money – meets, openings, etc.