Footballer to Olympic boxer - Lauren Price proves there's no such thing as 'too late' in sports:
Team GB’s Lauren Price is through to the middleweight boxing final at Tokyo 2020, proving that skilled sportsmanship is completely versatile. semi-finals to secure her place in Sunday’s battle for gold. Price beat her long-time rival Nouchka Fontijn, a Dutch boxer classed as one of the best in the world, in the last round of the fight.after her win. “We’ve fought each other a number of times and know one another inside out. [Fontijn] is world class.
She also added: “It’s nothing new to me, going into a final. I’ve been here before.” While it’s true that Price won gold in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2019 European Games, her sporting success doesn’t end there., earning 52 caps for Wales and winning the 2013 Football Association of Wales Club Player of the Year for her success with Cardiff City – the same year that Gareth Bale took home the men’s prize.
. “With the Olympic journey starting with the Commonwealth Games, I decided that it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I just had to take it.”Now, aged 27, she’s fighting for her first Olympic gold, proving that there’s no such thing as ‘too late’. If anything, trying your hand at a variety of sports is actually a great way to succeed. “Many people think that their career is over once they stop competing in a certain sport,” says physiotherapist and weight lifting coach.
While not all of us are blessed enough to be in the top class divisions of multiple sports, that’s still an important lesson. If an injury has stopped you from your passion of
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