Back in April, we were honoured to meet Richard Whitehead - the marathoner turned men's 100m and 200m T42 sprinter. He told us about his blades, training regime and the power of the Paralympic Games.Catch up with this inspriring interview
in every sporting person’s career.If you get to the final at an Olympic games, anybody can win. Something happens at the Olympics, it’s not often the favourites who win or the ones you expect. If any British person gets into a final at any event, who knows
Until the events of a Beijing night four years ago you could ask anyone to name Jamaica’s most famous son and the answer would undoubtedly be: ‘Bob Marley’. But such is the iconic status of the man now sitting in the courtyard of Marley’s former
.During the heptathlon you’ve got to try and concentrate on the event that you’re doing. Keeping your mind in a good place is key and literally taking one event at a time, not thinking about the overall outcome.The Olympians who inspired me most when I was young were
’s hills and the track. His mantra: “When you’ve trained yourself into the ground, train some more.”Even the pros can’t make the 400m hurdles look easy. Faced with an event so physically and mentally tough it’s known as ‘the man killer’, Greene gets his