The final episode of the Path to Paris documentary series retraces the highs and lows of the Dublin boxer since her Olympic gold in Tokyo
It is suitably teasing that the final episode of the Path to Paris documentary series begins with the utterly euphoric days in the life of“There’s been times in my career when people say the whole country is behind you,” Harrington gleefully recalls of that unforgettable moment she won the lightweight boxing title. “This time I really, really feel the whole country is behind me.”
Because there is at least some sense the viewer knows what is coming, and Path to Paris soon takes us there too, and the very public controversy after a retweet Harrington posted in October 2022, citing a right-wing pundit on GB News talking about the death of a 12-year-old girl in France at the hands of an Algerian immigrant.
Harrington’s annoyed and overly offensive response did not win her many admirers, but what was less known at the time was just how low she had gone in the aftermath, and she recalls that in sombre detail here. From that low, it was a slow rebuild, a gradual re-emergence to public life, which started with her qualification for the Paris Olympics, a full year out, when winning the European Games in Poland in June of last summer,
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