Ireland’s Kellie Harrington said she was looking forward to an easy life without the pressures that come with being a boxer after winning her second Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games on Tuesday.
Harrington said she would be hanging up her gloves after beating Yang Wenlu of China by split decision in the final of the lightweight category.
The 34-year-old became the first Irish boxer to win back-to-back gold medals, adding to her victory from the Tokyo Olympics.”When you reach a mountain, find a bigger mountain. And that’s what I’ve done. It wasn’t easy to climb that mountain,” Harrington told reporters.
“It’s been three years of madness. It’s been hard. So I decided that (this medal) is for me. I’m doing it for me and me alone. And that’s what it is. I’m just so happy.”
Asked what would come next in her career, Harrington said: “(There are) no more mountains.