It’s not often you’ll find a current newsy piece on our blog but this is SO important that it had to be shared and celebrated!
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At the end of 2021, Caroline had for the fortune of interviewing GB’s Lizzy Yarnold. Now, if you’ve never heard of Lizzy, she is a former world champion skeleton athlete and skeleton gold medal winner at the 2014 and 2018 winter Olympic Games. She achieved a career grand slam in the 2014/2015 season by being crowned World Cup winner, , Olympic, European and World Champion! She is a bit of a sporting legend here in Britain and I can’t tell you what an honour it was to interview her (well, you’ll see in a minute as Caroline’s interviewing technique is enthusiastic to say the least!).
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Polly is a 15-year-old from Wales who loves to ski. She trained with a Canadian freestyle club in 2020 and won the Under 12’s Welsh Girls Freestyle Championship in 2019. She has just passed her Level 1 Canadian ski instructor course at only 14 and is going on to do her Level 2.
One day she hopes to work as a medic with the ski patrol.
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This week is Mental Health Awareness in the UK and the theme is Connect with Nature. When we think of nature, we might go to forests and green open spaces but the sea counts too!
Yvette Curtis must have the sea in her genes; half Mauritian, half British, in this week’s blog she explains how surfing and the sea helps her and her community be active, look after their mental health and be at one with nature.
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In our aim to showcase as many sports as possible, we’re starting at the beginning of our alphabet with A and bringing you archery! Read on to learn more about this sport which has its roots in days of old when bows and arrows were used in combat! Luckily, these days we’re talking more Olympic and Paralympic Games than The Hunger Games …
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When Caroline was a little girl, she wanted to be a journalist and she really wanted to be a sports journalist. She did PE GCSE (exams we take in England at 16 years of age) at school and for the non-practical element, she created a school newsletter focussing on the Winter Olympics. (I’m pretty sure it was the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics but in researching this, I’ve realised that the dates don’t really add up so it may well have been Albertville ‘92! CK)
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I’m a really enthusiastic person, and so everything I do, I give it all or nothing. I had been training twice a week when my coach said, “Do you want to take this seriously, and shoot for your county?” I wanted to be the next Olympic Gold Medallist and the best shooter the world has seen, so I said yes! I went to shoot for the county and then before I knew, I’d qualified second in juniors, first in ladies and third in seniors; cementing the fact that this was my sport!
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