Her aunt said that late night revellers picked her up in the taxi of the gold medal-winning boxer Lauren Price. They were in awe of her and they never caused her any trouble.
Price defeated Chinese player Li Qian in the women’s middleweight final in the early hours of Sunday morning, won the Olympic champion and got on the podium.
This is the latest victory in the athlete’s brilliant career. He was a four-time youth Taekwondo champion and has played 52 games. Welsh football team.
When she chose to chase her dream of Olympic boxing glory instead of her promising club football Cardiff City She drives a taxi on weekends to make ends meet.
In an interview with the Duke Cambridge Before her last game, she said: “I cleaned up all the drunks on Friday and Saturday nights.”
He smiled: “I bet they didn’t mess with you, Lauren.”
Her 44-year-old aunt Alison Morris told PA News Agency that Price never got any nonsense from passengers in the Welsh Valley.
“People all over the country know Lauren,” she said.
She joked that her niece is “somewhat celebrity” and getting in her taxi is a treat for the locals.
Ms. Morris said that Price’s family was “ecstatic, ecstatic, ecstatic, and all other words that can be used to describe how happy you are.”
She touched a lot of people because she is an inspiring person, she is so down-to-earth, down-to-earth
Since her own parents could not take care of her, her grandparents raised the price since they were only three days old.
Her 68-year-old grandmother Linda Jones is a big fan of Price, but she was too nervous to watch her game.
Ms. Morris said: “I called (my mother) immediately after the fight because she obviously didn’t watch it. When I told her’Mom, she did it, she did it, she won,’ she said,’What? Really?’, and then she started crying.”
Price’s beloved grandfather Derek After a long struggle with dementia, he passed away in November last year.
Price told William: “I know he will look down on me.”
Ms. Morris said Price’s family was much more nervous than her before her fight, and the boxer was easy to relax.
“She likes watching TV, basically just relax,” she said. “Anyway, she is a very relaxed person, she will not get angry easily, so she is relaxed very often.
“Lauren works very hard-this is her professional ethics, this is what she has always wanted to achieve, and now she has achieved it.”
As a child, Price once told a teacher that she wanted to play for Wales, become a world champion in Taekwondo and win an Olympic gold medal.
Even if these three goals are achieved, her family does not think she will slow down in the short term, and hope to see her fight for British team In Paris in 2024.
“Of course, she will continue,” Ms. Morris said.
“We are really very, very proud of her, very happy for her, and thank her for all the support she has received from everyone-not just her family and friends, but the whole of Wales and the whole of the UK.
“Even in foreign countries, we have received information and everything from abroad. She just touched a lot of people, because she is an inspiring person, she is so down-to-earth and down-to-earth.”
