Joshua: Adams to win gold again

Anthony Joshua is predicting fellow Olympic champion Nicola Adams will surpass his achievement  and retain her gold medal at Rio 2016.

The London 2012 super-heavyweight winner watched his former Team GB team-mate move into the Women’s Flyweight final by out-pointing China’s Cancan Ren in the semi-final.

Adams, who was the first ever female to win a boxing gold medal four years ago, will face Sarah Ourahmoune of France in Saturday’s final.

Joshua, who turned professional after winning gold, was at ringside to see the Leeds golden girl make it two wins out of two, in the 48-51kg competiton, so far and has no doubt his friend will repeat her historic performance and strike gold again.

“I am not being biased either but Nicola makes things look easy – when everyone knows how phenomenal all these fighters are,” he told the BBC.

“She has won …

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