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18.11.2021 / 12:17
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Team GB star's secret life driving taxis before landing National Lottery funding
Traditionally, when people jump into a taxi, it’s the driver who says, “You’ll never guess who I had in the back of my cab once.”But in Caerphilly, it’s the passengers saying, “Can you believe we used to be driven home from the pub by an Olympic gold medallist!”They’re talking about Lauren Price, who won gold in the women’s middleweight boxing for Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics.Turn back the clock a few years and Lauren was driving cabs all weekend so she could afford to train during the week.“Before I became fully funded, my nan and grandad were supporting me,” she says. “I was on the Welsh team, training Monday to Thursday and driving cabs on Friday and Saturday nights.“I’d finish work at 3-4am – obviously that affects your training.
