Britain's Nicola Adams is certain to get either the first gold or silver women's Olympic boxing gold medal ever to be awarded after beating five-time world champion M.C. Mary Kom in their flyweight semi-final on Wednesday.
The Leeds 29 year-old, who scored an 11-6 victory over "Magnificent Mary", is hoping home support at the ExCel Arena will see her take gold.
"I have been training since I was 12 years old and to think I am nearly there now makes me so happy," said Adams.
"I am going to do everything exactly the same as normal, but hopefully the crowd will give me a boost and I can get that gold."
In a rematch of May's world championship quarter-final bout in Qinhuangdao, China, Adams counter-punched impressively and was too strong for Kom, who won the last of her five world golds in 2010.
Adams will face China's Ren Cancan in Thursday's final, which will be a repeat of May's world championships gold-medal bout which the Briton lost.
Their match will be the first to take place on finals night of the inaugural Olympic women's boxing tournament.
Kom is India's only boxing medal success of the London Games after Vijender Singh failed in his bid to claim a second straight bronze on Monday when he lost his middleweight quarter-final.
In the other semi-final, Ren looked comfortable in her 10-8 win over America's Marlen Esparza, using her longer reach to score with her jab.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nicola-adams-guaranteed-boxing-gold-silver-151327283--oly.html
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