The back-to-back Olympic champion has been peerless in her era.
Gavan Casey AT AROUND MIDDAY before Kellie Harrington boxed for gold in Paris, her former Irish teammate Joe Ward posted a message to his Instagram story wishing her luck.
Taylor’s seminal London 2012 success was plainly hard-earned but it was only for the Olympic cycles that followed that several of boxing’s new powers began to pump money into their own female programmes. Olympic boxing is now an absolute dogfight for women just as it always has been for men. And Harrington has twice shot every opponent out of the sky, manoeuvring her way to the top of the podium in both Tokyo and Paris.
That’s not to intentionally disrespect China’s beaten finalist on Tuesday night, Yang Wenlu, who put in a fine performance in falling short. Harrington herself featured regularly as an analyst on RTÉ’s boxing coverage during the Rio 2016 Games, just over a month after being beaten by Tuesday’s Olympic final opponent, Yang, in her maiden World Championship decider.
On Tuesday night’s RTÉ panel, Ken Egan, Darren O’Neill and Bernard Dunne credited Harrington for waiting her turn behind Taylor for several years before blazing her own trail. It was understandably made to sound like a story of personal resilience but in reality, it required a lot more than that.
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