1 GOLDEN GIRL
“I’m not normally that emotional, I don’t cry but step ping onto that podium, after the four years of hard work, and having a shoulder operation in 2013 and coming back from that, and the challenges that I’ve overcome with that, and still managing to become world champion, and getting the full set of the grand slam of titles, yes, it overwhelmed me on the podium. I was just like, ‘Yes! I’ve done it, I’ve made it!’”
Nicola Adams on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, about shedding tears after her Olympic triumph