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Sidelines; The Lonely World of Non-Olympic Sports

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I've been waiting to post a new blog until after the Olympics.  It's so big.  So awesome.  So full of athletes and coaches.  It's...

A stark reminder of how far we are still yet to go for the...

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During the excitement of the Olympics and whilst we were all celebrating the achievements of some incredible female coaches, we received this email.  A stark...

“What is the point, don’t you get bored? I mean it’s not like you...

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  My personal background in swimming is quite unique. I trained and competed with the same club for years until I was 12 and got...

Low in numbers, but high in success rate; welcome home Team GB

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  Great Britain, the first nation in the World to have out performed their success straight after a home Olympic Games, were welcomed home today...

What did we learn from women’s football at Rio 2016; 66 Goals, 3 red...

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    66 Goals, 3 red cards, 3 penalty shoot outs, 4 female coaches. The women’s football competition has ended at Rio 2016 has ended with...

The greatest Gymnast of our time coached and mentored by coach Aimee Boorman

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  Aimee Boorman is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She is the head coach of 2013, 2014, and 2015 world champion, and 2016 Olympic All-Around gold medalist Simone Biles....

The greatest 400m race in History & The Amazing Achievement of Anna Botha

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Anna Botha, a name that not many in the sporting World had heard of before Rio 2016, made a name for herself on the night...

OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Anna “Tannie Ans” Botha – Athletics (South Africa)

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  Meet Anna “Tannie Ans” Botha, the great-grandmother coach behind South Africa’s newly crowned 400m world champion Wayde van Niekerk. Botha is counting down the days...

OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Maarit Teuronen – Boxing (Finland)

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As recently as the early 1990s, boxing gyms were bastions of masculinity where few women would tread. Slowly but surely, female boxers broke down those...

OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Janneke Schopman – Hockey (Team USA)

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  Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman is a Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch as well as for the Netherlands national team. Schopman...