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Claressa Shields, Top US Female Boxer
Living out my father's dream to become an Olympic boxer
American Claressa Shields was one of the stars of the London Olympics in 2012. At the age of just seventeen, she won boxing gold as a middleweight. It was a long journey from street fighting in Flint in Michigan to the podium in London - and her story has now been turned into a film called, T-Rex, which is her professional nickname. She told Outlook's Jo Fidgen how she came by it.
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