Thursday, 9 August 2012

PROFILE-Olympics-Boxing-Devoted to God, Taylor battles to gold (Reuters)

LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - When a young Katie Taylor used towatch her father, Peter, shadow box in the family kitchen,women's boxing was not officially recognised in Britain, thecountry where 15 years later she would complete a long road toOlympic gold. It has been a journey longer and harder than most. She hadhad to watch Olympic Games from her home in Bray, just outsideDublin, knowing that the sport she was devoted to was the onlyone missing from the women's programme at the Summer Games. ...

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