Four months into her boxing retirement and double Olympic champion Kellie Harrington says her future remains very much up in the air.
The 34-year-old, who announced her retirement shortly after her gold medal exploits in Paris earlier this year, has returned to training, the urge to step back inside the ring too strong to resist.
"I don’t know if I have really achieved my goals," she said. "I’ve achieved an amazing thing, but in life there must be something more than Olympic medals.
"Maybe it will take for me to watch somebody else what I have done in my sport to realise what it is."
As well as two Olympic gold medals, Harrington won the World Championship in 2018, the European Championship in 2022, and the European Games in 2023.
After a well-earned break post-Paris, Harrington has been drawn back to the ring. For how long, or in what capacity, remains to be seen.
"This is the longest I have ever been away from proper, full-time training," she said. "It’s good to know that I can still move, still have a bit of speed about me.
"If I wanted to, possibly I could do something again. I’m not saying it [fight competitively] again, but something again. Who knows?
"I don’t really know what I’m doing. People are always saying, 'what are you doing next?’
"The Olympics wasn’t so long ago. I just need a little bit of time to breathe and decompress, then make a decision then on what is going to happen. There is a lot more to life than sport.
"I’m slowly getting to realise that again. After ten years of just boxing, I need to find who I am without it and see if I like that. If I don’t, then I can get back coaching or boxing."
