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Eventful Lives Podcast

#33. Olympic Double Gold Medalist - Dame Kelly Holmes

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5 โ€ข 857 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 5 May 2021

โฑ๏ธ 41 minutes

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Summary

She rocketed to stardom when she became a double gold medalist at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, winning both the 800m and the 1500m. 


We chat about her early days as a teenager in the army, her successes on and off the track, her ongoing battles with injuries, and of course, those 2 finals at the 2004 Olympics.


Hearing first hand about the dedication, relentlessness and strength it takes to reach the pinnacle of sport, is really inspiring,


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0:00.0

Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur.

0:05.0

I'm Dodge Woodall, founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival.

0:10.0

We have Borough of Sevens!

0:12.0

Ever since events across the world came to a grinding halt,

0:16.0

I've been bringing people back together, but in a different way.

0:20.0

On this week's episode, I'm chatting to a dame who has won two Olympic gold medals, Miss Kelly Holmes.

0:27.6

Kelly rocketed to stardom when she won two gold medals at the Athens Olympics.

0:32.6

We chat about her early days as a teenager in the army.

0:35.6

Her success is on and off the track, her ongoing

0:38.6

battles with injuries and mental health, and how it changed her life forever. Hearing first hand

0:45.0

about the dedication, relentlessness and strength it takes to reach the pinnacle sport is really inspiring.

0:51.2

So if you want to hear more stories like this, make sure you subscribe

0:55.0

and we will keep them coming. Here she is, the one and only Dame Kelly Holmes. Kelly, how you doing?

1:04.4

Welcome to the show. I'm good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, really good, really good. Well, let's get

1:09.6

cracking. Why did you choose the army and what age were you?

1:12.9

So I was 14 years old.

1:15.3

We had the services come into our school.

1:19.6

And it was when they had the service offices in like towns, you know, kind of military services.

1:26.7

So they came in, show me free videos,

1:29.6

or us, the Navy, Air Force and the Army, the Navy couldn't swim. So ships at sea was a no-no.

1:37.8

The Air Force, they showed the administrative side of it. I was like, no, I wasn't academic at

1:42.8

school whatsoever. I went to school for two

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