Harrington said she would be hanging up her gloves after beating Yang Wenlu of China by a split decision in the final of the 60kg lightweight category.

The 34-year-old became the first Irish boxer to win back-to-back gold medals, adding to her victory at the Tokyo Olympics.

She says, “There’s no more mountains, that’s it. I’m done now, like, I’ve, the next chapter is going to be my life chapter and it’s for me and Mandy (wife) now, you know like to do what we’re doing now so, who knows what that’s going to be but I can’t wait, I just can’t wait to…to just live me life, not that I’m not living me life, that’s a, what are ya talking about?”

“Like, but, to not be looking at the scales every morning and to, it’s crazy when you say, and all boxers are the same, to be able to train the way we want to train, not in boxing, because everything is like, well we can’t do that because we might get injured, or we can’t do that because you’ll be tired tomorrow, if you do that you’ll be tired tomorrow and you won’t be able to spar, I want to just be able to do whatever type of training I want to do and, stuff like that you know, so, no more mountains,” Harrington adds.

--Reuters--