Ep. 120 – MENNA FITZPATRICK MBE & CPT. JENNIFER KEHOE MBE - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

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Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to Visually Impaired Ski Race Team members Menna and Jen. Tim, Menna and Jen discuss how they began working together, winning Paralympic gold medals and the true importance of team work.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Love Joe podcast and it's another special.
0:03.0	Woohoo!
0:03.6	Today's guests are Mena Fitzpatrick and Captain Jennifer Kehoe and they are Britain's most decorated winter Paralympians.
0:12.1	Menna throws herself down a mountain at 70 miles an hour on skis and Jennifer is her guide who wears an orange jacket and she follows it and that's how they do it and they win their gold medals.
0:23.5	You should point out that Menna has 5% sight in one eye and no sight in the other eye.
0:30.6	Yeah, it's absolutely amazing.
0:32.2	It's astonishing.
0:32.8	Absolutely astonishing.
0:34.7	Yeah, as I say, there are our most decorated winter paralympians so the it's a it's a
0:40.4	fascinating insight into um teamwork partnership and um and also ambition ambition to think i'm partially
0:52.9	cited i've hardly got any sight yeah i'm still going to go down a mountain at that speed, which is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. And I've, you know, hats off. I thought they were incredible. And I think you'll thoroughly enjoy this podcast. Can I just say this podcast is sponsored by a cooker, spelt quaker, but pronounced cooker.
1:11.8	It's the instant 100 degree boiling hot water straight from your tap.
1:16.8	I hope you enjoy this.
1:18.5	Let's meet Mena and Jen.
1:20.3	This is just a guide to modern life.
1:25.0	Modern life is hard to get just right
1:28.6	it can frustrate you
1:31.2	and annoy it
1:32.3	and if it does
1:34.1	write into dear love
1:36.4	joy
1:36.9	uh
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