Nicola Adams: 'Women should be able to do whatever they choose in life, and they shouldn't be held back by anybody'

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The double gold Olympic medallist, boxer Nicola Adams sat down with GLAMOUR to talk about Pride and her role as an LGBTQ* advocate, feminism and becoming a mother.

Boxer Nicola Adams is arguably one of Britain’s most famous - and most decorated - female athletes, with two Olympic gold medals under her belt at London 2012 and Rio 2016. She retired in 2019 with an undefeated record and held the World Boxing Organisation female flyweight title in the same year. But Nicola is also one of the UK’s most high-profile queer women and an outspoken advocate and activist for LGBTQIA+ rights.

One of my first goals was just to be able to walk 50 metres without being in pain and being able to tick off the small goals to get to my big goal, which was the Olympic Games, it just really gave me a lot more drive and motivation to be able to see that I was improving because it's very hard to be able to see that when you've gone from not being able to lift your shoulders off on the floor and having to roll over to stand up. It was such a difficult time.

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