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Smash her Russian hymen in!

So so happy we won the Gold :amazed:

Matt be kind to our neighbours

I don't think she won that round :suspect:

Aw well done Katie :love:

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Originally Posted by Munchkins (Post 5388333)

So so happy we won the Gold :amazed:

Are you Irish Munchkins?

Whayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Katie!

Well done Katie <3.

She seems so lovely, and it was best she won, might have been a riot. :tongue:

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Originally Posted by Black Dagger (Post 5388376)

Well done Katie <3.

She seems so lovely, and it was best she won, might have been a riot. :tongue:

That was her last fight too, good way to end it :love:

I've never felt anything like it..... Katie ****ing did it. Amazing ambassador for Women's Boxing. Just amazing :love:

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Katie Taylor expressed her "huge relief" after crowning her glittering career with an Olympic boxing gold medal, and insisted that she is determined to continue boxing.

Taylor claimed the gold with a gruelling 10-8 victory over experienced Russian Sofya Ochigava at ExCeL.

The Bray woman, roared on by thousands of Irish fans in the 10,000-capacity venue, had to overturn a one-point deficit at the half-way stage in order to add Olympic gold to the four world titles she has already claimed.

And afterwards, the Bray 28-year-old said she would ignore her father Peter's pleas for her to hang up her gloves on a high, instead considering future options including a possible switch to the professional ranks.

"I have no intention to stop boxing. I'm definitely going to continue, but I don't know whether I'll turn professional or stay amateur" - Katie Taylor

"I'll have to sit down and talk about it and we'll make the decision in the next few weeks," said Taylor afterwards.

If many considered the seemingly invincible Taylor a certainty for gold, those assumptions were shattered in a gruelling opening round in which the tough former world silver medallist Ochigava matched Taylor for muscle.

Bulling forward and clinching cleverly up close, Ochigava turned a level score at the end of the first round into a 4-3 lead at the half-way stage, but Taylor stayed patient and turned it her way in the third with a crisp right and superb counter.

Heading into the last with a 7-5 lead, Taylor still had a fight on her hands as the Russian muscled forward, landing two clean rights, making the wait for the verdict a surprisingly anxious one for Taylor and her legions of fans.

Taylor, crowned Ireland's first Olympic boxing champion since Michael Carruth in Barcelona 20 years ago, said: "It was a huge relief. I didn't know which the way decision had gone and I thought it might go to countback because there was a big delay.

"It's what I've always dreamed of. I've envisaged this moment so many times before but it's better than all my wildest dreams to be sitting here as Olympic champion as well as world and European champion. It's a big relief to finally get the medal around my neck."

Taylor, who has dominated her sport for years with little acclaim, shrugged off suggestions that her Olympic medal could change her, and said she has long since come to accept the fact that she will be boxing under pressure every time she gets in the ring.
Taylor added: "I'll just continue to do what I've always done. Nothing's going to change me when I go back home. I'm just going to take a few weeks off then get back into training and stay focused.

"There's going to be pressure on every single contest, but it's the pressure that I've putting on myself since I first started boxing at the age of 12, not the pressure from other people. So in that respect nothing is going to change."

She's not retiring :amazed: This will be the biggest nerves and fight she'll ever have so maybe she's right.....who cares, im gonna celebrate the win tonight, so proud of Katie. :love:

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She's not retiring :amazed: This will be the biggest nerves and fight she'll ever have so maybe she's right.....who cares, im gonna celebrate the win tonight, so proud of Katie. :love:

Sofya was robbed tbh

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5389381)

Sofya was robbed tbh

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5389381)

Sofya was robbed tbh

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Originally Posted by Legend killer (Post 5379440)

I hate to say this as i am a big boxing fan but boxing is the most corrupt sport at the Olympics and really needs to be dropped. In this Olympics alone there has been at least a handful of just mind-blowing bad decsions.

Yes after tonight I have to agree LK

Why after tonight all you had to do was watch Antoney NOGO's second round match where he somehow managed to get the decsion on countback when he GOT CRUSHED in the final round fuken joke

Katie was amazing :love: