The end Katie Taylor didn’t deserve

She suddenly looked like a little girl again. After all the invincibility and relative brilliance, after leading her sport so convincingly, it stopped here. But while endings are fine, this one felt like voyeurism, rubber-necking at a bloody and twisted car wreckage on the roadside.
The end Katie Taylor didn’t deserve

It should all have ended so differently.

From the beginning, this had been a story about her and her Dad and the dream they shared. One evening back in 1997, Peter had planned to leave her off at athletics training before he headed on to coach at the boxing club he’d started in Bray. At home, Katie had always watched him throwing punches at mirrors but when athletics was cancelled and Peter couldn’t get hold of a babysitter, she entered a gym for the first time and liked what she saw.

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