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Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Anfield rap.

I'm your host, Mo Stuart, and I'm delighted to be joined by a a school sporting icon, a woman who competed at three Olympic games

over 13 year senior career collecting 11 major medals

including Olympic bronze at Rio in 2016.

Not content with one stellar career, she's now setting the literary world on fire

with her book My Hidden Race shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the

year prize and Yika Anura. shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize.

And Yika Anura, welcome to the Anfield Rap.

Thank you. What an intro. Gosh, I forget about, I had all that in my career.

Trust me, I've been working on that for quite so while so thank you for saying that.

Now there's lots that I want to discuss from the book and from outside and we will be delving it

deep into your Liverpool fandom for those who can't tell she is wearing her

Liverpool show with pride to the... Come on! Which I'm actually really pleased about.

But first of all, congratulations on the nomination for the Sports Book Awards. Now the awards was last week

unfortunately you didn't win but let's talk about the achievement of getting

shortlisted in general there was what 150 books or something like that that were under consideration and you were in the

top five books of the year. Yeah. It's amazing. It is. It was a pretty big deal. I didn't really take it in as much

until probably the day of. like it was it was I was kind of

nervous because you know when I've won medals in the past and when I've been in

finals it's usually been with three other women but But like this is just me.

So it's nice to be recognized for my achievements

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