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Nicola Adams: First Olympic boxing champion ends career

2019-11-06T11:10:48.534Z


She won Olympic gold twice and a world title, but now it's over: the boxer Nicola Adams ends her career. She speaks of "irreparable damage" that threatened her, she would continue to fight.



The Briton Nicola Adams experienced her greatest moment as an athlete on 9 August 2012. At the Olympic Games in London, the female champion in the flyweight final won in front of an enthusiastic home crowd against Ren Cancan and secured the first gold medal at the Olympic Games Woman was forgiven. It was the first games in which women fought for boxing medals.

She repeated her Olympic triumph four years later in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2016 she also won the world title. In 2017 she became a professional and currently holds the WBO flyweight title. But now the 37-year-old has to end her career - to protect her health. In an open letter in the Yorkshire Evening Post, she writes that she is in danger of losing sight if she continues to fight.

"I was told that any further exposure to my eye would likely cause irreparable damage and permanent vision loss," Adams wrote. She was proud of her achievements, but they left a mark on her body. Adams has been boxing since she was twelve years old.

Here you can watch Adam's 2012 Olympic victory:

The topics of health and safety in women's boxing are currently being discussed controversially. In the framework of the men's World Cup between Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez and Sergey Kovalev last weekend in Las Vegas, the US-Americans Seniesa Estrada and Marlen Esparza punched over ten laps. The special: The rounds were scheduled as in the men to three minutes.

Usually, women only box for two minutes each round. The shorter duration of the fight is justified by medical studies, which state that women have weaker neck muscles and dehydrate faster than men. As a result, they have a higher risk of suffering concussions during longer combat duration.

Against the background of the accumulation of deaths in men's boxing, the decision to let Estrada and Esparza box over ten times three minutes was harshly criticized by some associations. But there are also active people, officials and fans who demand an adjustment of the lap times at the men's level in the sense of equal rights.

They argue that longer bouts are more spectacular and could be better marketed because there would probably be more Kos. As a result, women could claim higher battlegrounds. Female boxers, on average, earn significantly less on average than their male counterparts because women's matches are rarely televised.

Source: spiegel

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