Kellie Harrington: ‘There’s no bad blood or bad feelings towards Amy’

Ireland’s Amy Broadhurst and Kellie Harrington celebrate with their gold medals at the 2022 Women's European Boxing Championships, Budva, Montenegro. Photograph: ©INPHO/Aleksandar Djorovicwalks into the room and straight away starts rolling with the questions as she would any punches it’s clear nothing is about to ruffle her unnecessarily so.lightweight boxing title in Paris, any feelings already on her international retirement afterwards, come what may. Nothing is off the record.

“But if I was to think of just one person, that would be absolutely crazy. There are so many really, really good girls out there. Like, the draw has to be done. She has to qualify, which I think she will do, and you never overlook anybody. Prior to her decision to switch allegiance, Broadhurst said “her lifelong dream has been to become an Olympian. I have spilt blood, sweat and tears over 22 years in the boxing ring in pursuit of that childhood goal”.

“Ah, yeah, I’d be good friends with Amy, like. There’s no bad blood or bad feelings towards Amy. She was a team-mate. We don’t really have bad blood in Team Ireland ... And beyond.“I suppose he won’t be involved with me. Which is a shame because he’s a great coach. But, I mean, you can’t have that, like. He just won’t be coaching me.”

The Serbian fighter had lost her last two bouts to Harrington, including at last summer’s European Games in Poland, where the Dublin fighter qualified for Paris. “It’s a long tunnel, and it’s been a wide tunnel, because I qualified last year, in the European Games. And it’s been a long wait now, obviously. The focus hasn’t been there, but now it’s starting to shift, as of last week. And as it gets closer the tunnel starts to narrow, and get shorter.

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