In August's issue of RSVP Magazine, we caught up with Kellie Harrington before her gold medal win in Paris - she chats life with her family after retirement, her training regime and more
Boxing star Kellie Harrington is looking forward to living a “normal life” with her wife Mandy following her gold medal win in the Paris 2024 Olympics .
“When I am finished boxing internationally, we can do normal things and I don’t have to be worrying about weight and worrying about how much energy I’m wasting walking or going out to a concert or anything. It’s just those normal little things that people take for granted that I am really looking forward to having.”
“I know what it is to lose, and I know it’s OK to lose as long as you learn from it and you move forward. Loss is a part of life, it’s inevitable and it’s going to happen. It doesn’t define us as people.” “What we’ll have to really do is try to stay in control of what you’re doing out there, and your emotions, and your activity, that you’re not going off and meeting people, and wasting energy. You need to be conserving all that for training and for competition, and not getting caught up with anything that’s going on at home, or outside the village, or in the village.”
“I tried to keep the head down after Tokyo and live a normal life, because outside of sport I am a very normal person. I just wanted to get back to that as soon as I got off the plane, and I think I’ve done a good enough job of doing that. I’d also like for teenagers to see that just because you win a gold medal, it doesn’t mean you have to change who you are.”
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