Nicola Adams targets gold medal at Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Olympic and Commonwealth champion Nicola Adams has no plans to follow GB team-mate Natasha Jonas into retirement from boxing and insists she is fully focused on winning a second gold medal at Rio 2016.

Adams has recovered from recent shoulder surgery and is preparing for a competitive comeback at England Boxing Elite National Championships in Liverpool.

Next week’s competition will mark her return to an English ring for the first time since becoming the first female Olympic boxing champion at London 2012.

The 32-year-old says she is under no pressure to hang up her gloves as she bids to add a world gold to her impressive medal collection.

"I will keep fighting as long as I have the motivation to do so and there is no reason why that should not continue after the Rio Olympics," she said.

"At the moment becoming a double Olympic champion is the only thing on my mind but I have other goals left to achieve including world gold after only taking three silvers so far.

"Despite all my injury problems I have never lost my love for the sport and as long as I keep that love of fighting and entertaining the crowd I will still be eager to compete."

I will keep fighting as long as I have the motivation to do so and there is no reason why that should not continue after the Rio Olympics.

At the national championships, Adams will face a rare threat to her domestic dominance with her 51kg category also including Lisa Whiteside, who scooped world silver in Adams' absence.

The Preston fighter has boiled down to the flyweight division in order to challenge for Adams' Olympic spot and they could go head-to-head for the first time in next Sunday's final.

But Adams warned she is back to peak physical condition: "I am feeling really good, my speed and timing have returned and I feel like a whole new fighter.

"I had to change my style for the Commonwealth Games because I had to hide just how much of a problem my shoulder was causing, but I came through it and took the gold medal.

"Now it is not giving me any problems at all so I can revert to the way I have always fought and hopefully the fans in Liverpool will be able to see me at my best."