Most of us have experienced work pressure at some point or another, but it’s unlikely to have come close to that experienced by the home athletes at London 2012, who carried the weight of the nation’s expectations on their shoulders.
For Nicola Adams, the pressure was doubly intense: not only had she been earmarked as one of the GB’s likeliest gold medal winners but she was also fighting for the reputation of women’s boxing in its first year as an official Olympic sport.
