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Teen Contender: Then & Now
Podcast |
Radio Diaries
Publisher |
Radiotopia
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Documentary
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Feb 05, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:31:13

In 2012, Claressa Shields was a 16-year-old boxer in Flint, Michigan. She had an audacious dream: to be the Muhammad Ali of womens boxing. We gave her tape recorder to keep an audio diary as she fought to make it onto the first ever women’s Olympic boxing team.

Claressa is now 25 and fights professionally. With two gold medals and four world championships, she’s achieved her boxing dreams. But with boxing shut down during COVID, she has turned her attention to a different kind of dream. She bought a house. Today on the podcast, we hear Claressa’s original audio diary and bring you an update.

Teen Contender won a Peabody Award in 2012. The follow up story aired on This American Life as part of their 25th anniversary special.

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