“I’d always watched the Olympics from a young age,” Price said. “I remember seeing Kelly Holmes [at Athens 2004] and people like that.
“It’s the biggest sporting event ever. It just gave me goosebumps. I just wanted to compete in it one day. I didn’t know in one sport or how.”
Her kickboxing and football careers continued, but Price had also gone for a trial at GB Taekwondo – and been successful.
She left home at 16 and moved to Manchester. She lived with future double Olympic champion Jade Jones, who had also recently joined the programme.
The London Olympics were round the corner but the sport was not quite right for Price.
“It didn’t really fit with me,” she admitted. “It was hard being away from home at that age.
“In kickboxing I was always better with my hands than my legs. So I decided to come back and went to a boxing gym.”
It proved to be a life-changing decision.
This was not Price’s first time in a boxing gym. She had done a bit to improve her upper-body strength as she thought it would help her improve as a defender in football.
But it was the first time she started to take it seriously.
As ever, her granddad would willingly take her to train.
Unsurprisingly, her kickboxing background and physical fitness meant she hit the ground running.
It was not long before she was sent to the Wales boxing squad for an assessment.
She impressed and at 17 years old was selected for the Youth World Championships.
Price reached the final and looked on course to win, only for the fight to be stopped because she got a nosebleed. She still seems aggrieved to this day.
She continued to box for Wales and play football for her country.
In football, she captained Wales Under-19s at a home European Championship.
In boxing, she was given an opportunity that would change the course of her sporting career for good.
Women’s boxing had just been added to the Commonwealth Games programme. In 2014 she was given the chance to box for Team Wales.
The time had come to throw her weight behind one sport and having watched Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor win gold at London 2012, Price had the Olympic Games in her sights once again.
She went to the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and won bronze in the women’s middleweight competition. Even now, she believes she was unlucky in the semi-final.
