Katie Taylor
speaker
691 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Katie Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
She's a pioneer.
Absolutely incredible.
You're right, she actually invited me over to her house as a 10 or 11 year old.
Just the time that Deirdre gave me even back then and the inspiring words every single time I came back with a medal or something.
She always sent me such a lovely message and that meant so much.
This is my hero who I'm looking up to.
she's going out of her way to actually uh to write me a message or to just give me that time she also held the pass for me as well like with a training session before as well just amazing stuff like that it's just like yeah where'd you get that that kind of support yeah yeah yeah you got to meet your herd on one train exactly yeah yeah crazy what was there a point so you're this young girl going into the boxing club you're not even allowed box but you're there
Yeah, I mean, I think at a young age, when I started boxing, nine, ten years of age, I had this dream, I wanted to become an Olympic champion.
I didn't even realise that women's boxing wasn't even in the Olympics during that time.
I was just looking at all the lads fighting and winning medals, and I wanted to be like one of them, I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
And it was a long journey to get women's boxing approved for the Olympic Games.
And I'm so proud that I had a part to play in that.
Getting invited to Chicago to fight in front of the Olympic Committee to basically see whether women's boxing was at the standard they wanted.
The question they wanted to know was, are you good enough for it?
And I had to perform.
You talk about pressure, that was pressure right there.
I had to perform.
And a member from the Olympic Committee actually came up to me a few days before that fight and said, your performance will determine whether women's boxing will be included in the Olympic Games.
Oh my gosh, you talk about pressure.
I think I just got my knees back in the hotel and started praying.
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