Inside Team GB Boxing

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Steve takes the pod to the home of GB Boxing in Sheffield. He chats Rob McCracken, the performance director and the man responsible for picking the team to represent Great Britain at the Olympics. As well as Rob, we also hear from Paris 2024 hopefuls Delicious Orie, Rosie Eccles, Reece Lynch and Demi-Jade Resztan, who are all heading out to Poland next week for the first Olympic qualifier.

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0:00.0	I just didn't want to let my family down, so that's why I saw that push myself every single day.
0:04.1	Jumaine DeFoe, outside the box, from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:09.0	Join me for my brand new, franable podcast in my quest to become a football manager.
0:13.2	Just being able to look yourself in the mirror every day and just be like,
0:15.2	don't work. I did everything right, I think kind of corners.
0:18.0	For my roots in East London, to 57 England caps,
0:21.0	winning the Scottish Premier League and everything in between.
0:23.4	The gift and the talent, that takes care of itself,
0:25.4	but the hard work and the sort of application,
0:28.0	this needs to be day in and day out.
0:30.0	Jumaine DeFoe, outside the box, listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	This is 5 Live Boxing.
0:39.0	A slight change of pace in the box imparts this week,
0:42.0	and I mean, sheffield at the GB squad, because guess what?
0:46.0	The Paris Olympics are here, well I'm not here obviously there next year in Paris,
0:50.0	but the qualifiers start at the end of this month in Poland.
0:55.0	13 men and women have been selected.
0:58.0	It's big news. If you're an amateur boxer,
1:01.0	it's the start of your dream.
1:03.0	And if you're one of the boxers we've covered during the last 10 or 15 or 20 years on 5 Live,
1:09.0	guess what? You also went to the Olympics or you wanted to go to the Olympics.
1:13.0	It matters. I'm Steve Bunz and this is 5 Live Boxing.
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