UK Sport Podcast – Medals & More – a conversation with Dame Katherine Grainger
Medals & More – a conversation with Dame Katherine Grainger – the podcast taking you behind the scenes of British Olympic and Paralympic Sport.In this episode, we hear from British Olympic and Paralympic medallists who’ve won gold, silver and bronze since the start of funding in elite sport in the UK in 1996.
Medals & More – a conversation with Dame Katherine Grainger – the podcast taking you behind the scenes of Olympic and Paralympic sport.In this episode, we focus on the record-breaking success of Rio 2016 and look ahead to this summer’s Tokyo Games – can Team GB & Para GB equal those achievements?
Medals & More – a conversation with Dame Katherine Grainger – the podcast taking you behind the scenes of Olympic and Paralympic sport.In this episode, Katherine speaks to a man who has done it all in his sport – Sir Andrew Strauss.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled for 2020 have been postponed to 2021 by the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee and local organisers in Tokyo.This was as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.It means that the bodies behind Team GB and Para GB now have to re-organise their arrangements and logistics for the games. It also means UK Sport – the Government Agency which manages the funding of sport in this country now needs to look at how to fund Olympic and Paralympic sport through to 2021.In this episode of Medals and More, the chair of UK Sport Dame Katherine Grainger speaks to the respective CEO’s of the organisations responsible for dealing with the current challenges.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is now due to take place exactly one year later in Japan, following the unprecedented postponement of the Games due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the world.In this episode of Medals and More, the podcast getting behind the scenes of Olympic & Paralympic sport, 5 time Olympic medalist and now UK Sport chair, Dame Katherine Grainger catches up with Team GB’s ‘Chef De Mission’.
Across the sporting community, there has been an increased focus on athlete wellbeing. We are used to hearing from athletes about their physical problems, but what about their mental health?In this episode of Medals & More, the podcast getting behind the scenes of Olympic and Paralympic sport, recorded during Mental Health Awareness Week, five time Olympic medallist and now the Chair of UK Sport, Dame Katherine Grainger welcomes a panel of three guests to discuss the emotional challenges facing athletes aiming to be the best.
