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That little piece of history, making me feel, this is my motivation, what | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
I want to achieve. A lot of people have written me off. This is my | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
life, what I have been looking forward to for the last four years. | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
The deal and angle. -- VB all and end all. | :00:38. | :00:53. | |
For almost four years, the best amateur boxes in Britain have been | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
working towards this summer's Olympic Games in Brazil. The Great | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Britain men and women's score was spent all week living in training | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
together in the British Institute of sport in Sheffield. A gruelling | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
routine. I hate Monday morning. Training three times a day, I | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
thought I could not do this, I thought my body with breakdown. I | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
could not get used to it. It is more than 95, it is more like seven to | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
seven. This is a huge challenge, qualifying for re-Okung are coming | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
with a huge amount of pressure. They can afford to leave no stone | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
unturned. We get our weight checked at half past seven. From there, half | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
past seven, we go to the track, do our run. We are all in the same | :01:56. | :02:08. | |
boat. Nice to have someone to talk to, I'm dreading this run, I know | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
they are dreading it as well. Makes it seem a bit better. After that we | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
go back, have breakfast, a little rest, then strength and | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
conditioning. Then we have the boxing session, sparring, fax, and, | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
skipping. It is just routine. -- pads. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
The 2012 Olympics brought an unprecedented level of success will | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
GB Boxing. Nicola Adams, one of three gold medallists. The girls no | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
working to the blueprint of their coaches in Sheffield will bring them | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the best chance of glory. Women's boxing is going from strength to | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
strength. You can get certified equality coming through. They are as | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
good as gold, sparring regularly, everybody helping each other out. It | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
is an individual sport when you get there, but they realise with the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
quality of sparring and training they make the most of it so they are | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
able to perform. Nicky is the really experienced one. European champion, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Olympic champion. She is running really well. When Nicola Adams is | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
running hard in the mornings, she performs better for the top they | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
just like to see me in pain, dying on the track. More for their | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
entertainment than anything else. A lovely girl, Chantelle, quiet, | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
confident in their own ability. The real positive way Chantelle Kamran | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
is her love for the sport. She absolutely loves it. A fully fit | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Savannah Marshall, with their heads right, confident, I think she's the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
best middleweight in the world. I never, ever thought this will become | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
a job. Anything like that. I probably have the best job in the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
world, really. She has real quality, former world champion, very young, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
very ambitious and stop she has been injured, she knows she's injury | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
free, her confidence should be up, she should go for it. The women's | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
game has moved on, at least 8-10 quality females at every weight. No | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
easy medals, the girls have to get it right, listen to tactics, stay | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
calm, boxed their way through this qualifying, hopefully onto a medal | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
in Brazil. No easy task, all three are capable of doing it. The first | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
chance to qualify for the Olympics would see the girls face the best in | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Europe. Only a place in their weight category final would be good enough. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
In 2012 Nicola Adams changed the face of sport forever, becoming the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
first female Olympic gold-medal boxing winner. Now a gold medal here | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
would put on the verge of creating used again, as she is to become the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
first ever Olympic female to maintain a title. Nicola Adams onto | :05:15. | :05:26. | |
the front foot. Her opponent, wearing red, this for a place in the | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
final, and a place at Rio. Beautiful left jab from Nicola Adams. She has | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
boxed beautifully so far. Really aggressive contest. Both Boxers | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
going for their shots. Adams finding her range, finding her range | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
wonderfully. Picking her shots. The reigning Olympic champion will go | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
through to Rio 2016. I am on the road to Rio, amazing feeling. | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
Successful Nicola. The 33 Ralph was not yet -- 33-year-old was not | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
content with qualifying, adding another medal to her collection. For | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Savannah Marshall, the European qualifiers would prove to be a | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
painful experience. Sea -- she suffered a defeat in her | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
first match. Chantelle also suffering a defeat in | :06:33. | :06:57. | |
her match. I'm seeing friends and family. I had a week off, training | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
at home, but different to Sheffield training. I came back to my camp. | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
Monday, back to Sheffield. Saturday and Sunday, just catching up with my | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
family and friends. Where you always into combat sports? Mainly kick | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
boxing, when I was really young. There is a picture of me, really | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
young. My first-ever tournament. I was about 13. What did your mum and | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
dad think? To begin with they thought I was going through a phase, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Notts eating with this. My dad, did not like the fact I was fighting. My | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
mum has been the one taking me on to get into the ring. My dad came | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
around to seeing I was good at it, dedicated. He became one of my | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
biggest fans. These are the world medals in kick boxing. I was world | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
champion, British champion, five Nations champions. And European | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
champion. Come here, Guinness. Scared of the camera! I was gutted, | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
did not qualify in the Europeans. I shut down from Aaron Baddeley for | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
about two days. Did not contact my parents, they were worried sick. I | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
wanted to do it my way. Straightaway, speaking to my coach | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
at home. Spike Lee my brother, we had a massive phone conversation. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Started speaking to my friends gradually, that took me awhile. The | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
worlds, hopefully my time. I will graft a bit extra, put more working. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
I'm hungry for it. When I was out there, did not get altercation, I | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
was like, I need to qualify. You realise how much it means to you. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
When I did not get it, I realised this means everything, nothing | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
seemed important anymore. This is all I want. | :08:57. | :09:18. | |
Kazakhstan, qualifying. My coaches somewhere around here, I have known | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
since I was 16. Now she is watching me, seeing the progress into an | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
athlete. She was quiet, timid 15-year-old. I thought, OK, see what | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
we can do. Straightaway, she amazed me. When she started training with | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
the bigger guys, even then, her boxing was shining through. Some of | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
the adult guys were like, who is this youngster shoving us up? My | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
opinion was not really women and boxing. Chantelle changed my opinion | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
of that. She had already been kick boxing when she came to us. She was | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
looking to just improve her hands. What I saw of her, when I took on | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
the pads, I felt her energy, she changed my opinion on women and | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
boxing. With one more chance to qualify for | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
the Olympics, Chantelle would need to be at her best at the World | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Championship in Kazakhstan, where only a top four finish would secure | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
a seat on the road to Rio. Started simply, 44 second knockout in her | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
first bout. We're on our way, Chantelle Kamran working effectively | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
behind her jab. We have a coming together. That is harsh. Two brings, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
something audible from the other ring. The other Boxer causing, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Kamran well within her rights to take a shot, she has been issued | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
with a warning. Working to the body, looking to tire her opponent out. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
Haldon, a warning for holding. We mentioned the fact that her opponent | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
would have to look as she conducts herself. They warning each way. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Coming into the final round, closing seconds. They are proving to be the | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
equal of one another. Good right hand from Cameron in response. Very | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
little in this. Successful two shot Salvo from her opponent. The action | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
has stopped. That is indeed the concluding Bell for this contest. A | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
hard-fought encounter, in the second preliminary round. | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
She is a split decision victor. Over Great Britain's Chantelle Kamran. I | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
think she's desperately unlucky in this contest. Really do. A crushing | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
defeat ending Chantelle's Olympic dream. We are very disappointed. | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
She's one of the hardest working people in the squad. A real nip and | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
tuck affair. Unfortunately on the wrong end of a close one. Very | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
disappointed, as we all are. Chantelle is a brilliant fighter, | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
one of the best in the world, I hope she can come back. Brilliant role | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
model for female boxing because of her fighting spirit and dedication. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
She has travelled around the world, fighting and beating the best. Does | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
not matter what happens now, I'm proud of her already. Only say | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
weight Katie Taylor, the Irish legend was still looking to qualify. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
She had to settle for bronze, after being defeated by Estelle Mossely | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
will in the any final. -- in the semifinal. In 2012, Savannah | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Marshall was the best middleweight in the world. Years of injuries, | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
followed by unlikely defeat in Turkey, in the European qualifying | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
have left her hopes on the balance. I wanted to be a teacher, everything | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
you could think of, apart from a boxer. I first started when I was | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
12, just friends, go into the boxing gym, I went along. The only girl in | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
the club, for a good few years. Did not bother me, I was comfortable | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
training with other boys. My mum and dad never said anything, friends did | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
not say anything, or just accepted. I am lucky, really. I love it, my | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
gym. Some of these bags, I have battered. My home. No other place I | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
would rather train. Took me two years to get my first bout. I | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
remember being really nervous, would not tell anyone, not even my mum or | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
dad until a couple of days before. I am boxing in Birmingham, in two | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
days. Did not want them going on about it, so I would get more | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
nervous. She has done it, Savannah Marshall | :14:34. | :14:45. | |
takes the gold. When I won the worlds, I thought I am all right at | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
this. I am good. The reigning World Championship gold medallist is Great | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
Britain's Savannah Marshall. In the Olympics, I was ranked number one, | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
the favourite to win gold. It was all just too much for me. Really got | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
on to me. I remember thinking what the occasion was, everybody talking | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
about it. Something like 20,000 people in the arena. I had never box | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
in front of that many people, everybody was set in stone that I | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
was going to win gold. Only needed to win one fight for bronze. Even | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
winning that, my life would be changed forever, what I have to do. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
I remember thinking, I want to get home, go home. When I was at home, I | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
was relieved I had left little behind. Took me the best part of two | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
years to get over. After the Olympics I wanted to get back in the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
ring and truth I was good enough. A lot of people have written me off | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
since London, I have not been about. Two or three tournaments, then going | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
missing for six months through injury. I had one operation, then | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
three, I'm still here, still number one. Still fighting to qualify. I am | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
strong, looking forward to it. Got one more chance now. Go out and | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
do it! With her final chance arriving at | :16:22. | :16:39. | |
the World Championships, Savannah Marshall would face Li where the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
prize was a place in Rio. Savannah Marshall competing in her | :16:44. | :16:57. | |
third bout of the tournament. She's made a pretty bright start here, the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
boxer wearing blue. So has Li as well. You would expect nothing less | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
when you are taking on the World Championship silver medallist and | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
tournament number three seed. Savannah Marshall getting to work | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
behind a lovely left hand. The second of the jabs did get through. | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
Working well behind the jab, started fairly well. That wasn't a bad right | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
hand. It is important again that when she lands those shots, if she | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
does fall in, she's got to switch the attack downstairs and doesn't | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
want to be holding on the inside. Or letting her opponent hold her. She | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
needs to work when she is in the clinches. She's got the benefit of a | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
slightly longer reach. She needs to keep it long and, as you say, keep | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
popping them straight shots out. The third preliminary round, Li had a | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
really comprehensive victory over the Swedish boxer, who has made it | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
through to the Olympic Games already. | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
Both of them will be coming in full of confidence here. Again, we have | :18:14. | :18:32. | |
got confusion. We have had that on a few occasions - two rings in | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
operation, both using a similar-sounding bell. Both boxers | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
broke off. That bell concludes this round. That a fair reflection of the | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
round of boxing we have just seen. Judges A and C favouring Marshall, | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
Judge B favouring Li. You need a big round now. Try and get hold of her | :18:59. | :19:12. | |
now. The instructions clear from Li. First round was split, Judge B | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
favouring the work of Li, Judges A and C favouring the work of | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Marshall. The two boxers having moments of success during these | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
exchanges, but perhaps the eye-catching shot during that | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
cluster of punches was the clean, long left hook landed by Savannah | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
Marshall. Lee wants Marshall to work hard off the jab. If she misses the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
target, she can fall in a little bit. He wants her to work better | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
with the jab. That was a nice shot. Measure the distance with that punch | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
and let the back hand go. Use your jab as a range finder to make sure | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
you know your back hand is hitting. If you are getting behind your jab, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
like Lee is saying, you will know whether it is going to land or not. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Right hand to the body wasn't too far away from Marshall. | :20:14. | :20:26. | |
Grappling at centre ring now. It's Marshall who is operating out of | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
centre ring, runs into a one-two combination. That was good, keeping | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
her opponent on the outside. You are showing the judges that you are in | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
control in terms of the movement, you are dictating things. A good | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
right hand to the body from Li. Some lovely defensive work from Savannah | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Marshall. She blocked a lovely right hand from her opponent who threw the | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
shot and kept that left hand nice and high. Good defensive work from | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Marshall. Another competitive round of boxing. Li, the tournament number | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
three seed, finds herself trailing for Judges A and C by two points, it | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
is tied up for Judge B. Savannah Marshall is in the ascendancy? She | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
is starting to work well. She's just getting a bit too close. To the | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
second half of this 75kg middleweight quarterfinal. Lee | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
encouraging Savannah Marshall, telling her she needs a big round. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
There is a cracking right hand from Marshall, swivelling the head of Li. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Lee wants Marshall to work with the same urgency and intensity as she | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
has been showing, to keep her on her toes. And I think she's responding | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
well. The right hook wasn't too far away from Li. Won an Asian Games | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
silver at the tournament in South Korea in 2014. She lost to a boxer | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
from North Korea. She demonstrating herself as a capable opponent during | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
the course of that tournament and here she is, she's already qualified | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
for the Olympic Games. But she wants some World Championship hardware | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
here to add to be what she won two years ago -- to add to what she won | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
two years ago. She's falling in and letting Li get close and she needs | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
to lean back a bit and give herself more space. You can see her trying | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
to get through with that uppercut. It's been a bit untidy in this | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
round. A good one-two combination from Marshall... That is when she is | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
at her best, when she has her long levers in someone else's face. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Working behind that jab, that is important, that set up that one-two | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
combination there. Straight shots, that is her strength, Savannah | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Marshall. Uppercut attempted by Li. Another competitive round of boxing. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Lee into the blue corner immediately. Marshall leads on all | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
three scorecards by three points for Judges A and C and by one point for | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Judge B. Plenty of encouragement from Lee as | :23:44. | :24:03. | |
there is for Li, as she rises from her corner. This is the fourth and | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
final round. That last round, it was a close round, but they gave | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Savannah Marshall the benefit of the doubt because she is trying to box | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
and she is trying to keep it at long-range. Li wants to work on the | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
inside. Lee wants Savannah Marshall to keep it going. He knows she is so | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
close to Rio. She has to keep it going. She is boxing well. She is | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
keeping it tight. Working behind that straight left hand, straight | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
right. She is boxing well. She has to keep it going here, so close. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Less than a minute and a half away from the Olympic Games. That is what | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
it is all about. Most certainly is. Li has already qualified, China one | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
of two nations who have sent three boxers through in every weight | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
class. Morocco have done so as well. Li, she's come here after World | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Championship hardware to add to her burgeoning medal collection. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Savannah Marshall knows that it is Rio or bust and that is why she is | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
so keen to get her hand raised in this particular quarterfinal because | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
the final four in the middleweight tournament will go through to the | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
Olympic Games this summer. She is trying to spoil Savannah here, Li. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
She is holding on, getting in close. Marshall working well with that jab | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
and that one-two. She knows she's got to keep working, got to keep | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
working on the inside. Working well at range, but carry on the attacks | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
on the inside and she is doing it. I think she's outworking Li in this | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
round. Both boxers will be feeling the pace but it is an immense prize | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
that awaits the victor. That is why they are continuing to compete with | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
everything they have. Right hand was blocked effectively by Marshall. At | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
the conclusion of that round, Savannah Marshall raises her arms | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
immediately as she returns to her blue corner. Let's get the official | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
announcement to see who is through to the final four. Rio 2016 in the | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
case of Savannah Marshall Savannah Marshall. You always get nervous | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
when the results take this long to come through. You can see... The | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
winner by a unanimous decision, in the blue corner, it is Savannah | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
Marshall. A unanimous points decision winner. She has got herself | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
a World Championship bronze at least, but the biggest prize of all | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
is an appearance at a second successive Olympic Games. I'm so | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
happy. I got beat in the first qualifier and I went and done it in | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
this one. I'm all over at the moment. My emotions are all over. It | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
hasn't sunk in. Were you beginning to wonder? Yes, I was thinking, oh | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
what is the point? What is the point? But now it's all paid off. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
This is the first time in a good year that I have been injury-free | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
and I have medaled at a major. After four years of hard work, Savannah | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Marshall 's success means she will have the chance to avenge that | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
London Olympic heartbreak. Before that, there is a World Championship | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
semifinal to face. Two rounds completed. There are two | :27:40. | :27:54. | |
rounds to go. Savannah Marshall trailing by two points, 20-18 | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
across-the-board. Fontijn is picking off the advancing | :27:59. | :28:18. | |
Marshall. She doesn't want to let this become psychological. She wants | :28:19. | :28:26. | |
to keep her hands up on the way out. Fontijn's movement proving effective | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
on the back foot, taking the long route around the boxing ring. She's | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
got her there, she needs to work. That is where she needs to work. You | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
are right. On the inside. Just a little bit more. Sometimes she plods | :28:39. | :28:47. | |
forward and she is a bit predictable so she needs the odd feint to show | :28:48. | :28:57. | |
her opponent something different. She is still taking the contest to | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
Fontijn. She's got to try and block a couple of shots going forward. The | :29:03. | :29:15. | |
second half of this round now. That was parried by Marshall and she | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
lands with a big right cross. Look at the good footwork from Fontijn as | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
she pirouettes back to the middle. A little bit of clinching perhaps | :29:23. | :29:34. | |
for the first time in the contest now. It's being fought at quite a | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
clip for two big middleweight boxers. Fontijn trying a shot | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
underneath. Savannah Marshall remaining on the front foot and | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
poking out that left jab. Can you get the range with a | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
backhand, missing with the jab and the backhand. Exactly what I want, I | :29:54. | :30:10. | |
need you to be busy. Drag it in. Fairly happy with the last round. | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
Interesting to see how the judges see it. Going forward, nice shot | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
from Marshall. Still needs to block the odd shot coming back. She | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
probably has two improve the accuracy. The quality is not quite | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
there from Savannah. Let's look at the schools. Lee was quite pleased | :30:31. | :30:40. | |
with our brand. Trailing by one point from that observer, and three | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
points from the other judges. As we go into the third and final round. | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
The number two ranked boxer in the world, Fontijn in a commanding | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
position. Leading by three points. Savannah Marshall has been | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
committed, taking it to her opponent. The greatest success has | :31:04. | :31:12. | |
been coming from the flashing blue fists of Fontijn. Marshall has had | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
success of her own. Fontijn will know she has been in the contest. | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
Can Marshall do something Jim Matic to overturn the deficit she is | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
facing in this third and final round, as she attempts to get to her | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
second World Championship final. She has been a touch unlucky with the | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
scoring, to be quite honest. Some of these rounds have been quite close. | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
Sadly not rewarding her with that from foot pressure. Getting caught | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
occasionally coming in. I have seen a lot of judges that preferred that | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
from foot boxing, rewarding her for that, but not tonight. Lee Pullin | :31:55. | :32:02. | |
giving instructions from the corner. Both boxers booking their place in | :32:03. | :32:12. | |
Rio here, after being eliminated from the European Championship in | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
the qualifying round. They faced a fair amount of pressure here. | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
Savannah Marshall contesting her second Olympic games, Fontijn there | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
for the first time. Looks as if she will improve on her bronze medal she | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
picked up two years ago. Good right hand from Marshall. The boxers | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
exchanging jerks. The insurance she has built up from two judges made | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
this fourth and final round a very difficult task indeed. The sixth | :32:43. | :32:50. | |
time these two boxers have shared a ring. One would think the advantage | :32:51. | :32:59. | |
will continue to be in Fontijn's favour. She makes it through to her | :33:00. | :33:10. | |
first World Championship final. Savannah Marshall coming away with a | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
World Championship bronze to add to the one she won four years ago. Very | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
frustrating, she is a world-class fighter. Happy I'm losing to the | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
best. Happy I am qualified. I have eight weeks. I will get there in the | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
end. What has the week done for your confidence, self-esteem and belief? | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
This time last week, I was thinking, what will I do if I do not qualify? | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
I might have to get a new job. Now I know I do not. Clarissa Shields | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
eventually taking the world middleweight title. Since winning | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
gold in London, Nicola Adams' life has changed radically. Nicola Adams | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
has just made history, brilliantly boxing her way to the first-ever | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
women's Olympic boxing title. That was an amazing year. I went with the | :34:10. | :34:17. | |
build-up, all the people, how excited everybody was about the | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
Olympics. How excited I was to be a part of it. I remember thinking, | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
this is a dream come true. The knockdown surprised me the most. I | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
was in shock myself. I heard the crowd, going back to the final, I | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
needed to focus. Didn't she boxed brilliantly from the opening bell to | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
the last. I was like, I did it, I'm Olympic champion. The most amazing | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
feeling of my life was up I really miss my dogs, when I'm away. My mum | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
sends me videos. Dexter. Easy Doberman. -- he is. Pretty safe. | :34:58. | :35:07. | |
This is my medal from the European Championships. It was the qualifiers | :35:08. | :35:17. | |
for the Rio Olympics. Really happy about this one, the key to me going | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
to Rio. Does not end there for me. I want to go to the World | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
Championships in a few weeks, and win another gold medal. I have a lot | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
of hard training to do. We have a camp next week. To days my rest day. | :35:35. | :35:41. | |
Chill out on the sofa, with the dog. Watching some Game Of Thrones. Going | :35:42. | :35:51. | |
into these qualifiers, I felt like a more rounded athlete. I know but the | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
pressure is like. I know exactly how I will feel getting into the ring, | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
getting to fight for my place in Rio. Is there more pressure on you? | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
I actually thrive under pressure. It makes me perform better than I would | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
normally. Normally I am, yes, OK, I will go and win this. But I really | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
have two windows. More on the line, what makes me perform that little | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
bit extra. The same thing at the worlds, I really want the gold | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
medal. Never had one at the World Championships. I have a Europeans, | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
the Olympics, Commonwealth, the only one I am missing. I always wanted to | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
do the second Olympics. I wanted to do the Commonwealth Games, the first | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
time we had women's boxing, I wanted that bit of history. Then on to Rio. | :36:47. | :36:54. | |
No double Olympic champion in boxing, male or female. I wanted the | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
extremes to be. Calm down. He has only moved. He has started up again. | :37:01. | :37:08. | |
With Olympic: vacation already secured. Nicola's sole focus for the | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
World Championship, is claiming the last title to elude her. After | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
battling through a tricky quarterfinal, Nicola finds herself | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
one step away from the gold-medal bout. Into the second round of this | :37:23. | :37:29. | |
51 kilograms flyweight semifinal. The boxer wearing red, in the south | :37:30. | :37:38. | |
-- southpaw stance coming out quickly. She is the tournament | :37:39. | :37:46. | |
number eight seed, second encounter between these two boxers. They met a | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
couple of years ago, Nicola Adams coming out on top stop how | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
significant will that result the? Her opponent 26 years of age. One of | :37:58. | :38:04. | |
a four strong Kazakhstan boxing team. Nice jab. This contest, | :38:05. | :38:14. | |
suiting the length, starting to wait, bringing her opponent into the | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
shop, getting the timing right. A southpaw can be easier to hit. Nicky | :38:24. | :38:43. | |
is a seasoned professional. She knows how to handle herself. She can | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
switch itself, like she has done there. The pace is seizing Nicola | :38:51. | :39:03. | |
Adams. Shekerbekova's feet are too slow. Allowing Adams to use the jab, | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
the straight right hand. Doing well at this stage. In the Olympic Ric | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
classes, 51 kilograms one of the weights contested in Rio. By making | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
it through to the bronze medal bout, insuring the passage of all of the | :39:24. | :39:31. | |
semifinalists, to Rio 2016. Now they are boxing for the best possible | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
World Championship medal. Let's listen to Dave. Do not step in. | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
Saying do not step in. Once to bring the opponent onto the shot. If she | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
steps in, and a full short, Shekerbekova coming back with her | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
own counters. Nicola Adams taking both of the opening rounds. All | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
three of the observing judges putting her in a strong position | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
going into the second half of the contest | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
There. Nicola Adams a three-time World Championship silver medallist. | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
Looking to book a place into another World Championship final, looking to | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
contest the gold. Ending up in the southpaw stance momentarily. Looking | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
comfortable, but taking a swift left-hand from Shekerbekova. Two | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
rounds down, getting desperate. One can expect an increase in tempo and | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
workrate from the boxer in the bread. She has deceivingly long | :40:46. | :40:54. | |
arms. She does not need to step in, get involved. She can just work off | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
the jab, she is getting involved in silly shots. Another left-hand from | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
Shekerbekova. She is a toughie, Nicola. She will stand and trade, | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
does not mind taking a shot. She is tough? If you want... If you cannot | :41:14. | :41:22. | |
beat her boxing, and you want to trade, she would trade with you. | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
The 2010 Asian champion, Shekerbekova. Gold medal 54 | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
kilograms. She was a gold medallist flyweight as well. Second appearance | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
at a World Championship. Adams continuing to work behind that long | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
left-hand. When she utilises that shot, Shekerbekova becomes a | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
peripheral figure in the contest. Great movement from Nicola, in and | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
out with the feet, scoring well with the jab. Good boxing skills and | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
variation with the footwork. Shekerbekova had her moments during | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
the course of the third round. Couple of periods of success with | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
eye-catching left-hands. You have to keep your shape. You cannot just | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
jump in. Two minutes now, sharp, everything sharp. Good work from | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
Nicola Adams in this round, her feet were good, in and out. Dave Alloway | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
wants to cut out the mistakes. He knows she's home and dry, just needs | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
to keep the boxing going. There it is, third round completed. All three | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
of them scoring the same way. Fourth and final round. Shekerbekova, the | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
tournament number eight seed coming out quickly, she is trailing, having | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
conceded all three of the completed rounds to Nicola Adams, the | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
tournament number five seed. Ranked sixth in the world. Tamsin is the | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
reigning Olympic and European, Commonwealth champion. All | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
multisport events. Nicola Adams embracing stage of the multisport | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
competitions. How she would dearly love to secure her first World | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
Championship gold medal. One foot in the final already. As Dave Alloway | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
pointed out, in calm fashion. Scoring with a beautiful right hand, | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
before turning the tables on Shekerbekova. All she has to produce | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
is two minutes of mistake free boxing, and she is through to | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
another World Championship final. Shekerbekova does not want to come | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
in while, that will suit Nicky down to the ground, just popping her | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
rough with singles and doubles. She is far too experienced, for someone | :44:01. | :44:09. | |
to walk in straight. Not too long ago Kazakhstan were over his | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
sparring with us, she sparred with Nicola. Psychologically going into | :44:16. | :44:19. | |
the contest, Nicola was very confident. She has a victory over | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
her as well, and the recent sparring sessions. That is good work by Rob | :44:25. | :44:33. | |
McCracken, inviting someone like as Xstrata and over. -- like Kazakhstan | :44:34. | :44:47. | |
favour. Kazakhstan had qualified three out of three for gold-medal | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
bout stop one suspects they are going to suffer their first loss ear | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
contesting the bronze medal bouts. Nicola Adams has not put a foot | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
wrong during the course of this bout. A second contest against | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
Shekerbekova. Nicola Adams owning a repeat victory. Let's get the | :45:07. | :45:07. | |
official announcement. Nicola Adams is through to her | :45:08. | :45:20. | |
fourth World Championship gold-medal bout. I knew I was going to be up | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
against it. I had to give it everything I had. I took care of it. | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
It is business in there. That is my office. I have come to get that gold | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
medal. Hopefully, I can get it tomorrow. This means everything to | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
me. If I can complete the set... I don't think happy expresses how | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
happy I will be. It is finals day in Astana. All eyes on Nicola. Time to | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
shine for Britain's "golden girl". The opening bell sounds in this | :45:49. | :46:16. | |
World Championship gold medal bout in the Women's Fly (51kg). | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
She is looking for her first World Championship gold medal having come | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
away with three silver medals in the past. Her opponent competing in her | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
fourth World Championships here, this her best ever result. | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
Surpassing the quarterfinals that she made back in 2010 and that is | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
Peamwilai Laopeam of Thailand. It is important that she establishes that | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
jab. We have said it many times about Nicola. Once she gets into a | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
rhythm behind that shot, she sets up that back hand. She led with a right | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
hand and fell short and got caught with the long left hook from her | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
opponent. It is time to get behind that jab, establish a lead and then | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
everything will come from behind that punch. She wants to get the | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
first round out of the way and then move into the second round. It is | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
quite tight at the minute. They are both throwing shots, blocking, both | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
guards are good at the minute. Fifth bout of the tournament for both of | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
these boxers and Nicola Adams has faced a whole variety of styles and | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
athletes of differing stature as well. Her quarterfinal win was | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
incredibly close fought over the talented 20-year-old from Chinese | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
Taipei. She was considerably taller than Nicola Adams. The youngster | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
acquitted herself very well indeed but Adams found a way to solve the | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
puzzle but it was a close contest. More comfortable victory yesterday | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
over the tournament number eight seed from Kazakhstan. Both boxers | :47:58. | :48:05. | |
looking to establish their rhythm and range during this opening round. | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
As you would expect, it's a cagey start to this bout for World | :48:11. | :48:17. | |
Championship gold in the flyweight division. What we need to be doing | :48:18. | :48:24. | |
is goes twice, so be sensible when you are moving away. You are not | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
getting hit, which is good. And sharp counters when she does come to | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
you. So we need that pressure on the front foot. Good advice from Dave | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
there. He is quite pleased with what she is doing. She is working behind | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
her jab. He is talking about the good foot adjustments but she's got | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
good movement with the feet, she can move in-and-out, and she is very | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
skilful doing that. Her movement is part of her strongest asset. Two of | :48:54. | :49:01. | |
the judges have given it to Nicky. The scorecard a fair reflection of | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
what was a cautious opening round. Nicola Adams starting the round on | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
the front foot trying to establish that left jab. Judges A and B | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
scoring the opening round for Nicola Adams. That is a good one-two | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
combination. Back comes Laopeam with a right hand of her own. A good | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
start from Nicola Adams in this round. She is on that front foot | :49:20. | :49:26. | |
now. She moves in with the jab and she adjusts her feet so she comes | :49:27. | :49:29. | |
back on the outside. She is always thinking about safety. See how she | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
adjusted then to avoid the counters? She is clever. That is her strength | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
- in-and-out movement. When Laopeam moves away, she moves away with her | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
hands quite low, so I would go and go again. I think what Dave was | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
trying to say, come a bit out of range so she can't get you but then | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
go back in. Go back at her, yeah. Lots of feinting and the referee | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
reminding the two boxers to engage but they are thinking and trying to | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
fashion opens. That is a cracking right hand straight down the pipe | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
from Adams driving Laopeam backwards. She gets herself from | :50:08. | :50:15. | |
punching range. Good left hand to the body from Adams, who is | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
beginning to demonstrate her variety now. This is a good portion of the | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
round for Nicola Adams. Laopeam is struggling a bit with the movement | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
of Adams. She is working well. That straight right hand, that one-two is | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
a strong point for her. It is. She is trying to keep Nicky at the end | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
of her jab, trying to get some distance. If Nicky can go and go | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
again, she will catch her every time. She's experienced some | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
uncomfortable moments during this round, Laopeam. There is another | :50:52. | :50:54. | |
right hand once again. That has been a particularly profitable punch for | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
Nicola Adams during the course of that second round. The first round, | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
Judges A and B scoring for Adams. Judge C scoring for Laopeam. It | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
seemed to be a far more dominant round for the reigning Olympic | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
Champion in that second round. I thought this was a dominant round | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
for Adams. She worked very well indeed. She stepped on it. Some good | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
one-twos, look at this for a one-two. That is a super combination | :51:21. | :51:33. | |
there. Well... That is a bit surprising. The scorecard in the | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
second identical to the scorecards in the first, which is a surprise. | :51:38. | :51:47. | |
Seconds out... Round 3. We are into the second half of this Women's Fly | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
(51kg) in Astana. Good right hand over the top from Laopeam. Nicola | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
Adams enjoyed what appeared to be from our commentary position a | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
pretty dominant round, that right hand that she threw there was a | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
particularly effective shot, she caught Laopeam with it repeatedly | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
and, again, the spearing left hand in evidence from Nicola Adams. | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
Judges A and B favoured the work of Adams, Judge C has favoured the | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
boxing produced by Laopeam in both of the opening two rounds. It is | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
important that she gets a bit closer, she doesn't want to be | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
jumping in too much and starting the attack from too far away. She has to | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
move in with that front foot, measure the distance with the jab | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
and bring the right hand through. It is important that she doesn't do | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
that from too far away because the odd occasion she may fall short. | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
Great Britain sent five boxers to this World Championships. Nicola | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
Adams had already qualified by winning the gold medal at the | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
European qualification event in Samsun earlier this year. A good | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
left-right combination from Laopeam. Perhaps the best combination of the | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
fight for her. Nicola Adams, being the competitor that she is, will | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
know that she will have to do something equally eye-catching to | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
resonate in the minds of the judges. Laopeam now stamping that front foot | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
and feinting. Trying to fashion an opening for herself. We talked | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
before about when it is close, about them one or two things that are | :53:23. | :53:29. | |
eye-catching so the judges see, so Nicky needs to do something in these | :53:30. | :53:36. | |
last couple of seconds, like that. Right-hand lead wasn't too far away. | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
The closing seconds of this second round. Just a bit of confusion | :53:41. | :53:47. | |
between the boxers and the referee there. Another competitive round of | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
boxing. Loads of time. Nice. Good. That's | :53:52. | :54:02. | |
it. You have two more minutes. Don't leave anything in the tank, alright? | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
Nice and sharp, put your front foot where it needs to be. Saying to get | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
that front foot... She has to get a bit closer. This was a closer round. | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
Laopeam had some success in this round. Whether she did enough to win | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
it, I'm not so sure. She probably did on the one judge. The one judge | :54:20. | :54:26. | |
seems to be favouring her. Again, Judge C is favouring everything that | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
the Thai boxer is doing. She likes her style. | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
The final round... We move into the fourth and final round and Great | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
Britain's Nicola Adams in search of her first World Championship gold | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
medal is leading this contest for Judges A and B by three points. | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
Judges A and B have given Adams every round. She eats a big right | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
hand from Laopeam. Judge C has favoured the work of the boxer in | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
blue. So very much a question, or at least we deduce from those | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
scorecards, that Judge C prefers the work of Laopeam, Judges A and B | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
preferring the boxing of Adams. So potentially now less than a minute | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
and a half between Nicola Adams and her first World Championship gold. | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
Laopeam is sitting back and she is waiting for Adams to come into try | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
and land that right hand. Nicky has to double up that jab. That is what | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
she has to do, double up the jab and then throw the right hand, maybe | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
double the attack up and keep the attack going. A single attack, she | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
might get caught with the right hand. | :55:35. | :55:42. | |
Nicky needs to keep that lead hand up a little bit. She keeps on | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
getting caught over the top when she is bringing the jab back slow, or | :55:48. | :55:56. | |
bringing it down low. Both boxers really thinking about their attacks. | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
Trying to trigger something off which they can counter. Inside the | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
final 30 seconds, though. Remember, a good lead right hand from Adams | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
once again. Laopeam tried the same shot but it was a bit long. The | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
closing stages now. Nicola Adams has one hand on the gold medal, given | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
the status of this contest coming into the fourth and final round. And | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
the feinting and the studying continues. Good left jab from | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
Laopeam, the ten-second clapper has sounded. Adams on to the front foot | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
once more. Good exchange of shots between the boxers and as the | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
closing bell sounds, Laopeam raises her arms immediately. I suspect that | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
is in more hope rather than expectation. Nicola Adams was | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
leading this contest by three points for Judges A and B coming into the | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
fourth and final round. Let's get the official announcement. The | :56:54. | :57:04. | |
winner, the new World Champion of 2016, is the red corner, Nicola | :57:05. | :57:05. | |
Adams! ? She's done it! She completes her | :57:06. | :57:16. | |
gold medal collection from major tournaments by claiming her first | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
World Championship gold. She has done so by split decision after | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
another brilliant boxing display over Thailand's Peamwilai Laopeam. | :57:26. | :57:28. | |
She comes away with World Championship silver. Nicola Adams is | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
absolutely ecstatic. The reigning Olympic Champion, the reigning | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
European Games Champion, the reigning Commonwealth Champion, she | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
can call herself a World Champion. I can't believe it. I have finally | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
done it. After three silver medals, I have finally got that gold. What | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
better year to do it, the year of the Games. I have cemented my place | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
in history as well. Quite a touch-and-go fight. She is a good | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
opponent. She deserved to be in the finals. I gave a little bit more. I | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
wanted it that much more. Two out of three down, I need that last one | :58:05. | :58:13. | |
now. The champ is here. Drive, determination, dedication - a | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
relentless will to win and a commitment to do whatever it takes | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
to make that happen. These are the things that mark out champions, | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
history makers. Coming back from the depths of injury and despair, to | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
take on the world again. Inspirational. Putting it all on the | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
line, even though the price of failure will be devastating. For | :58:37. | :58:45. | |
Nicola and Savannah their journeys will take them to Rio this summer | :58:46. | :58:48. | |
where the greatest prize in sport awaits. | :58:49. | :58:51. |