'Amy Broadhurst is a British athlete, and I’ll keep saying that the only athletes I’m interested in are the people in front of me, and they’re all wearing green'
Irish boxing's performance director Patricia Heberle insists that qualifying a record 10 athletes for the Paris Olympics fully justifies the selection policy that caused some controversy in recent months.
Gráinne Walsh was selected ahead of her for the second and third qualifying tournaments in Milan and Bangkok. "I have a look every now and then but the key thing for me is not to be distracted. My job is to keep that bigger picture view of what we’re trying to achieve and I just keep bringing myself back to ‘we’re trying to qualify eight athletes and win three medals at the Olympic Games’.
"But you just can’t be distracted. We have to be bigger than that, and I have to keep reiterating that message to keep my staff focused because they’re all humans and often things are put out which are completely incorrect. "All of our number ones were fantastic and to have 10 number ones going to the Olympics...and then if we look particularly at the ones who missed out, Martin McDonagh, if he swayed one judge then maybe he is going to the Olympics as a 21-year-old super-heavyweight.
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