Out British Boxer Nicola Adams Wins Gold — Again

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She's the first Brit to successfully defend an Olympic boxing championship since 1924.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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Bisexual British boxer Nicola Adams won gold in the flyweight category at the Rio Olympics Saturday, repeating her 2012 performance and becoming the first Brit to retain a boxing medal since 1924.

"I'm now officially the most accomplished amateur boxer Great Britain has ever had," she told the BBC. "I can't believe it." She defeated France's Sarah Ourahmoune, winning a unanimous points decision, the BBC reports.

Adams has won gold medals in the European and Commonwealth competitions as well as the Olympics, the BBC notes. And the last British boxer to repeat a gold medal win was middleweight Harry Mallin 92 years ago.

Adams has said she hopes to be a role model for other women in boxing, a sport she entered accidentally by wandering into a boxing gym. "I am incredibly excited to see the growth of the sport and the role that women play in the development," she said in a Newsweek interview. She has volunteered with an organization called StreetGames, which helps disadvantaged children in the United Kingdom become involved in sports.

In 2012 she led The Independent's list of the most influential LGBT people in the U.K. Her gold medal that year -- the first year women's boxing was an Olympic sport -- made her the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing medal.