A teenage boxer from south-west London is eyeing potential future Olympic glory after she was selected by Team GB to compete in the Youth Olympics at the end of this month.<\/p>\n
Lily Bassett, 16, from Tooting, recently won her fourth consecutive junior European Championship gold medal in Serbia after she beat opponents up to three years older than her.<\/p>\n
She is among 16 athletes across a range of sports who will represent Great Britain at the Youth Games which begin in Dakar, Senegal, on 31 October.<\/p>\n
Marcus Luther, who started coaching Bassett at his club TM Boxing when she was six, said she had the talent to make it all the way to the top.<\/p>\n
“Nobody beats her. She’s the best kid in the world. She’s been the best kid in the world for a long time now,” he told BBC London.<\/p>\n
“We are looking at a girl who potentially could be as great as Katie Taylor.”<\/p>\n
Taylor won Olympic gold for Ireland at London 2012 before she turned pro and became three-time undisputed world champion.<\/p>\n
Luther, who is a familiar face to fans of Channel 4 show Gogglebox having formerly starred from his sofa on the series for many years, said he believed his young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 was well equipped for life in the limelight.<\/p>\n
“When she started coming to boxing she was a really shy girl. Part of the reason for her family bringing her here was to bring her out of her shell,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I never thought she would end up boxing at the highest level. Now she has so much confidence and self-belief.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boxer from south-west London is eyeing potential future Olympic glory after she was selected by Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}