Quote Originally Posted by westcorklad View Post
Congrats to Katie.on winning her fourth world title.Surprised that RTE actually covered her semi final and final contests.Normally they would only give a mention in their sports reports to amateur boxing but as she is the only realistic gold medal chance for Ireland in the Olympics I suppose they had to change their policy.BTW there were two other Irish women in action in China but they both went out in the early stages.What odds now that Katie will come under pressure to carry the Irish flag in the Olympic opening ceremony?
What an incredible woman,can you imagine how concited she would be if she was a he WCL?,ala Kenny Egan?,shes a 4 times world champ,something even Ali never did.