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Wales’ Lauren Price aims to win her first world title on Saturday in her backyard when she takes on Jessica McCaskill.
Cardiff’s Utilita Arena hosts their Olympic champion and in her BBC Sport column Hannah Rankin previews what it would mean for Price to dethrone the WBA welterweight champion McCaskill.
When I first met Lauren Price, what struck me was her focus. It was about six years ago at Team GB’s Olympic base in Sheffield.
She was a very serious person. Driven, focused and quietly confident, that’s how I would describe her then.
But she was talented, obviously talented. When we sparred the first time, I thought ‘she’s got something’.
She was going places, I knew that straight away.
She’s a special athlete. If she can beat Jessica McCaskill on Saturday and claim the WBA welterweight title, it will put her among those that have done great things in British boxing.
Winning gold at an Olympics is an insane achievement for anyone.
If you get through all the qualification processes, succeed over the four years of preparation and in one moment you achieve what you set out to do – that alone is an incredible feat achieved by a select few.
To then go on and win a world title? Achieving both cements your ability and cements you on the path to being one of the greats, and to represent Wales doing that will mean a lot to her.