Nicola Adams was one of the stars of London 2012, picking up gold in the flyweight division, then going on to do the double at Rio 2016. By May that year, she was the reigning Olympic, European Games and World champion at flyweight, having won every amateur championship event available. She retired with an undefeated record in 2019, having turned pro in 2017.
As if being a woman in boxing isn’t hard enough, Adams was the first openly LGBTQ+ person to win an Olympic boxing gold and has been named as one of the most eminent lesbian women by the DIVA Power List.
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