As Kellie Harrington left the ring she leant forward and spoke into the television camera that was back-pedalling just a couple of paces in front of her. Her head gear and her Ena Sharples hair net had been removed, and a face reddened from the fight was beaming. She thanked everyone who had supported her at home, and then she uttered a phrase from a famous song in the Lion King film: “Hakuna matata.” In Swahili it means, “No trouble.”Is that how it looked? It will be recorded that Harrington secured at least a bronze medal with a unanimous points decision, and that’s all that matters now. The Russian judge scored the first round in favour of the Algerian,

Source: The Times August 03, 2021 11:03 UTC