"I'll be 36 in December. So, why not? I'm saying nothing about the [next] Olympics or anything like that. Everybody knows me. I'll never say anything about winning or going to the Olympics. I always look at one fight at a time, one competition at a time. And that's exactly what I'm doing. But I do just think, imagine if I didn't give it another go. I'm fit, I'm kind of healthy. I have a few niggles at the moment but in general I'm healthy. So why wouldn't I?"
"I've had more than a year and I've had time to reflect on why I actually started boxing in the first place. It was to get me out of the hole, the wrong road that I was going down. And I've had time to reminisce on how I felt when I started boxing first and how I want that feeling again."
Harrington, a 35-year-old lightweight boxer and 11-time national champion, retired after winning a second Olympic title in Paris last year and now plans to return to competition. Her first comeback fight will be an exhibition at the Mansion House on December 2. Her immediate goal is to compete at the national championships in January. She will turn 36 in December and is not committing to another Olympic campaign, preferring to focus on one fight and one competition at a time. She has stayed in shape, sparred at the World Championships in Liverpool, and recalls boxing initially as an escape from a difficult path.
Read at Irish Independent
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