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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Audley Harrison: From Olympic Gold to Boxing Legacy

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Buncey sits down with former Olympic champion Audley Harrison. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, he won Britain’s first ever super-heavyweight gold and their first in the ring for 32 years. He talks Buncey through his journey from a young and hungry novice to standing on the top step of the podium. They discuss how that moment led to improved funding and laid the foundations for the state-of-the-art set-up which has since produced seven more gold medals in the ring for Team GB. He also recalls how being asked to shave his beard was instrumental in him winning that gold.

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0:00.0

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0:26.0

This is Five Live Boxing.

0:31.0

There was a time when British boxes would go to the Olympics, a team of seven or eight, maybe even ten, and if they came back with one medal, it was considered as success. Those were dark days, those were terrible times, and with the Olympics

0:44.6

coming, I can assure you those days are well and truly over. And that's all down

0:49.5

to just one man, one special Olympic boxer.

0:55.0

I'm Steve Bunce and this, and they did change in Sydney 32 year wait for gold finished and

1:17.8

the man ended it wasn't a drought it was worse than that it was a famine and a drought

1:21.8

combined the man ended that and started what we have now. What we had 2008, 12, 16, all the great stuff we've had since then is opposite me now in a hotel somewhere in West London.

1:35.4

Audley Harrison.

1:36.4

Hey, what can I say? What a journey you took us on and look where we look where we ended up becoming one of the most powerful

1:45.5

amateur boxing nations in the world I put it to you all day how I sign up at my feet

1:49.6

and now you can talk for 29 minutes I put it to you that all of that was down to your success.

1:54.8

Yeah it was you know I came through I remember watching the 1996

2:01.6

don't remind me I was there brother.

2:04.0

Yeah, and it wasn't good for Great Britain, but I remember watching Vladimir,

2:08.0

Vladimir, and I remember watching Alexi Lezin

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